Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.

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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.
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This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
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I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
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I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
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I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
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When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.
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... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
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You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
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One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.