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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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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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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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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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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I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above.
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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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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
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Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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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.
