David Benioff Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
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I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.
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Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
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You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.
