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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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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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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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