A Quote by David Mamet

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
American - Dramatist
Born: November 30, 1947

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

John Caudwell

The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

James Surowiecki

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it.

Russell Simmons

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Zachary Levi

People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Zachary Levi

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

Vivek Shraya

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Margaret Mead

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better... they're better people, right? They're segregated. It's self segregated in some cases, but there's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

Russell Simmons

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

Lizz Winstead

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey.

Joan Wallach Scott

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Maria Valverde

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

Laurie David

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

Serena Williams

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

George A. Sheehan

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

Olivier Theyskens

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