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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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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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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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