D. B. Weiss Quotes
To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.
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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.
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Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
