Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Every idea has its time.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
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Americans are definitely workaholics, maybe the overall message of this poll is that there is a kind of bedrock faith in the idea that working hard pays off.
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For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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It was a small idea. But at least the idea was mine.
