Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The Sam I knew was never in control of her emotions. But on that day she was wearing dignity. So much more beautiful than pearls.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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The propagation problem is the problem of explaining by the structural properties of the swinging system what the character of the swings would be in case the system was started in some initial situation
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I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.
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You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.
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I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
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Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.
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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
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Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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The Sam I knew was never in control of her emotions. But on that day she was wearing dignity. So much more beautiful than pearls.
