Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
Damien Hirst -
I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
Iris Apfel -
In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright -
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
Sally Field -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
Tatiana Maslany -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
Irwin Shaw -
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. Wilson
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
Harrison Ford -
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
Oscar Isaac -
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
Adam Lambert -
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler -
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Gail Carson Levine -
I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
Camren Bicondova
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In this pre-Lukan tradition, Jesus was made the Son of God at the resurrection. This is a view Luke inherited from his tradition, and it is one that coincides closely with what we already saw in Romans 1:3–4. It appears to be the earliest form of Christian belief: that God exalted Jesus to be his Son by raising him from the dead.
Bart Ehrman -
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity - just empty sermons.
David Stockman -
The government currently has unfunded liabilities surpassing $66 trillion.57 That’s $66 trillion in expected entitlement payouts over the coming decades for which there is no known revenue source.58 If nothing is done to scale back the entitlement state, then, according to a report by nonpartisan financial analyst Mary Meeker, “By 2025, entitlements plus net interest payments will absorb all—yes, all—of” government revenues.59
Yaron Brook -
I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.
Sean William Scott -
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.
Wanda Koop -
I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz