Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.
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You look marvelous!
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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'A Tale of Two Gardens'
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
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Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.
