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David Mamet

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Kehidupan

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

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Sukses

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

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Nasihat

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

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Kehidupan

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

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Waktu

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

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Keluarga

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

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Kebahagiaan

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

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Keberanian

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

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Kepemimpinan

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

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Kepemimpinan

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

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Kepemimpinan

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

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Kepemimpinan

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

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Keluarga

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

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Kreativitas

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

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Kreativitas

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

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Doa

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

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Keluarga

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

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Kehidupan

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

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Nasihat

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

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