Peter Dinklage Quotes

There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.

Peter Dinklage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 11, 1969

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My family were really poor.

Joe Gilgun

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I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

John Ensign

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Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Andrea Martin

YouDownDifficultTurnAnything

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

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I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

Tony Shalhoub

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Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.

Marvin Ammori

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I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

Mick Cornett

LifeLiveBestCityLearnYou

Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.

Monica Johnson

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We didn't take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn't take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.

Michael McCaul

WordsCommunismSeriouslyPresident

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Josh Holloway

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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Jon Ronson

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