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One Quotes by David Mamet
- The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable…
- We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the…
- A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may…
- In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners…
- Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something…
- Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio...
- No one enjoys being equal.
- Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go…
- One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that…
- American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The…
- The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right…
- They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one…
- You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see,…
- Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act…
- The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an…
- A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the…
- The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle