David Benioff Quotes
Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.
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Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
