Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
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I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
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People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.
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It's nauseating for me when I feel like I'm not growing or challenging myself.
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My dad's my nanny, so he spends a lot of time with me in L.A. when my mom's in Atlanta.
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You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.
