David Benioff Quotes

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

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• On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Will
  • Rights

• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Body
  • Place
  • Need

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Falling

• I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Young

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Sense
  • Cities
  • Big

• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Best
  • Negative

• I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

  

  David Sedaris
  • People
  • Why
  • Book

• I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Hate
  • Others
  • Interfere

• I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Inspiration
  • Solutions
  • Focused

• The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests

  

  Kent Beck
  • Effort

• I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

  

  David Benioff
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