David Benioff Quotes

I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Rude

• My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

  

  Xavi
  • Game
  • Player
  • Better

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Truth
  • Remember

• The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Family
  • Human

• I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Guest,' I was hating everything about it, but the first time, I loved it. The first time you watch it, you watch it as a whole. And the second time, I think you can learn a lot. By the third time, you are just picking everything apart.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Matter
  • Down
  • Broadway

• The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Look

• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Band
  • Broken

• I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Truth
  • Profound
  • Apology

• I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe

• When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I am the luckiest guy I know.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Guy

• My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.

  

  Padraic Colum
  • Long
  • Mind
  • She

• I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.

  

  David Benioff