Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I love to perform live.
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I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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I wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways There'd be no distance that could hold us back
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
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As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
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The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.
