Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fall
  • Hurt
  • Bass

• Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Why
  • Die
  • Alone

• To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

  

  Weegee
  • Hot
  • Photographer
  • Ems

• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Courage
  • Potential

• You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • United States
  • Interests

• This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Morning
  • Laughing
  • Underwear

• Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

  

  Zach Nelson
  • Solutions
  • Customer
  • Salesforce

• A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Stop
  • Minute
  • Quick

• ...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Water
  • Hands
  • Hold

• I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it their virginity is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Gift
  • Daughters
  • Virginity

• I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Play

• A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wife
  • Doubt
  • Husband

• The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups - civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties - that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Political
  • Moving
  • Internet

• Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Daughters
  • Mysteries
  • Honeysuckles