Quote by David Mamet
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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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. – David Mamet

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Government
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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. – David Mamet

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Society
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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. – David Mamet

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Death
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I wouldnt say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

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Recognition

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Recognition

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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Recognition

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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Recognition

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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If Im not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben

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In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. – Andy Roddick

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Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. – Bible

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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here. – A.R. Rahman

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