Quote by David Mamet
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while a

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. – David Mamet

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Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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Morning
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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. – David Mamet

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Government
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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. – David Mamet

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Computers
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I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. – Fred Allen

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Im a strange mixture of my mothers curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mothers father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. – Rupert Murdoch

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I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin wealthy. – Jim Carrey

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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. – Mario Batali

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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. – Ronald Reagan

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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. – Abdul Kalam

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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