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 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 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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You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.
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If a game is meant to be played by everybody, it deserves to be on multiple platforms so everybody can play it.
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I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.'
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I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.
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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.
