Peter Dinklage Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
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I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
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My dream, even now, is to walk for weeks with some friend that I love, leisurely wandering from place to place, with no route arranged and no object in view, with liberty to go on all day or to linger all day, as we choose; but the question of luggage, unknown to the simple pilgrim, is one of the rocks on which my plans have been shipwrecked, and the other is the certain censure of relatives, who, not fond of walking themselves, and having no taste for noonday naps under hedges, would be sure to paralyse my plans before they had grown to maturity by the honest horror of their cry, "How very unpleasant if you were to meet any one you know!" The relative of five hundred years back would have said "How Holy!”
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
