Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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The Ms. survey can call it a rape; a relationship counselor will call it a relationship.
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four
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If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.
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When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
