The best Quotes by David Mamet

The best Quotes by David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.

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Friendship Loyalty

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

American Football Native American

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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Ralph Kiner

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Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

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Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die

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You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.

Village idiot? Hello, Chicago is a city, not a village, and the best city in the world!

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Looking at Chicago from outside the city in daylight is one of the most depressing sights in the world.

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Two-thirty, baby, won't you meet me by The Bean?
Too early, maybe later you can show me things
You know what it is, whenever I visit
Windy city, she blowin' me kisses

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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

Rahm Emanuel

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Studs Terkel

Chicago Corruption

My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

Karen Fairchild

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

New York City Chicago Hollywood

I miss everything about Chicago - except January and February.

Chicago January February

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Illinois - and that's pretty much the same thing.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Youth Age Generations

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

David Nicholls in One Day

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Loyalty Darkness

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

Winnie the Pooh in Winnie the Pooh

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Memories Loyalty

Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.

Paulo Coelho

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Relationships Loyalty Searching

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

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Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

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The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Adolf Hitler

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

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Thinking Talking

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Lies Men Taking action Talking

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Craig Ferguson

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American Football Thanksgiving

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Bill Belichick

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American Football New England Patriots Community

Football is unconditional love.

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American Football

When you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

Tribal Wisdom

Horses Native American

The name was never a label. It was, and continues to be, a badge of honor… it is a symbol of everything we stand for: strength, courage, pride, and respect - the same values we know guide Native Americans and which are embedded throughout their rich history as the original Americans.

Dan Snyder - October 2013

Washington Commanders Native American

You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides. You will play golf and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said, "Do not trust the Pilgrims. Especially Sarah Miller." And for all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground!

Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family

Native American

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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