Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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I see ghosts.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
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The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.
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Sex was not worth the wait. After we did it, I was kind of like, that's it?
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
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There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.
