Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn’t anything mean about him. I didn’t understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Fierce
• Meanness

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

  

  J Mascis
  • You
  • Play
  • Everyone

• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Jesus
  • Genius
  • Poet

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Mood

• La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

  

  James St. James
  • Kids
  • City
  • Trust

• I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.

  

  Future
  • Up
  • Giving

• If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

  

  John Hodgman

• Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Why

• Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.

  

  John Buchan
  • Music

• I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Challenge
  • motivation

• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Joy

• I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Women
  • America

• I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I was just another girl.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Just
  • Another

• Bless more; blame less.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Blame
  • Bless

• He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn’t anything mean about him. I didn’t understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Focused
  • Fierce
  • Meanness