Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Every time someone asks him a question, he just reaches in his pocket and pulls out an answer – but the guy sounds like a cardboard.

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• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Work
  • Question
  • End

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Computers

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Question
  • Stupid

• I will not take 'but' for an answer.

  

  Langston Hughes
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• There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  

  Barbara Olson
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  • Think
  • Relationship

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  

  Ed Rendell
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  • American
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• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • Know
  • Question

• If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Help
  • Success

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
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  • Day

• I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
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  • Knowledge
  • Question

• You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • May
  • Political
  • Question

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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  • Question
  • Study

• The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• Deep down, everything boils down to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial or detrimental, or harmful to those very same that pursue them?

  

  African Spir
  • Question
  • Justice
  • Interests

• I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Life
  • Control

• I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

  

  Andra Day
  • Music
  • Soul

• Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Me
  • Keep
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• Every time someone asks him a question, he just reaches in his pocket and pulls out an answer – but the guy sounds like a cardboard.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
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