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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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I never thought I would live Kimberly Shaw down. So the fact that I've got another character, very different, under my belt is great.
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In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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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.
