Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I think there are a lot of things that find a hiding place in our bodies.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• All my songs are where I am.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Songs

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Book
  • History
  • Present

• There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Think
  • Song

• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Pro-life

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Taken
  • Realize

• I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• I think there are a lot of things that find a hiding place in our bodies.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Think
  • Bodies
  • Hiding