Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
Kapil Sibal -
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov -
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
Olivier Martinez -
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
Vince Gill -
Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy Duckworth
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
Han Fei -
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
Valerie June -
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
Carlton Cuse -
I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
Dan Brown -
I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi -
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Patrick Lencioni -
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
I lost my eyesIn east wind skiesHere's where I've criedWhere I've triedWhere God and the Tendaberry riseWhere Quakers and revolutionariesJoin for life
Laura Nyro -
There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.
H. P. Lovecraft -
And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
Omar Khayyam
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Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
Andrew Card -
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
Emma Watson -
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
Hannibal Buress -
We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.
Kay Hagan -
We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.
Benjamin Alire Saenz