#kin

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. ↗

— David Mamet

#get #grew #gun #i #just

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

#away #based #days #evenings #family

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched. ↗

— Method Man

#anybody #business #else #first-class #get

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#been #dramatic #get #ground #impossible

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#both #east #i #influenced #thinking

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#disease #fear #happiness #help #i

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#against #attacks #continue #feel #futile