Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
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The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will.
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
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That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
