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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Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
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That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.
