David Benioff Quotes

I've never flown a kite.

David Benioff

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• We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Revolution

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Obsessed
  • Talented
  • Sara Bareilles

• Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Everything

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Musicians

• I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Outside

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Pain is love.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Love
  • Pain

• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Think
  • Suffering

• We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Right
  • Against

• It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Name
  • Group

• Just because something is on trend, it might not work for you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • You
  • Just Because

• Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Black

• If they want to continue with that path of sanctions, we will not be harmed. They can issue resolutions for 100 years.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Path

• Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Working Hard

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Success

• If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Generations
  • Pollution

• I'm always feeling excruciatingly embarrassed after a concert; it's such an unnatural thing to do. On one hand, it's so unnatural to step in front of so many people and try to do something like I do, but on the other hand, it can be such a fantastic boon and such a wonderful ride.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feelings

• I've never flown a kite.

  

  David Benioff