Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.
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I don't think we're wasting people in space.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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'Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.'
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I'm a big Gorillaz fan.
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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
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Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
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My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'
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The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
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I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this will translate to the human model.
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.
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Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age.
