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.
Hamish Bowles
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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.
Malorie Blackman
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Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
J. J. Watt
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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.
W. G. Sebald
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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.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Viktor Orban
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Aaron Neville
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
Gaspard Ulliel
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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.
Francesca Annis
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
Takeshi Kitano
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
J. B. Smoove
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.
Lady Gaga
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
Eugen Herrigel
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It was a small idea. But at least the idea was mine.
Benjamin Alire Saenz