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'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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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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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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My dad gave up his job; he stopped working - for me. Without that, I definitely wouldn't be as successful.
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I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.
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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
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It must be awful, being a homophobe.
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I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
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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.
