Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
All right, so we’re also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren’t all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people—and it doesn’t look like it’s working out all that well.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
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Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
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All right, so we’re also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren’t all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people—and it doesn’t look like it’s working out all that well.
