Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Way
  • Nice

• The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Public

• It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nice

• One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Worry

• I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that when I realized I should probably not get my nose broken anymore. I love trying new stuff. Now I'm loving archery, and I surf. I just like to explore new things, I guess. I'm a big kid!

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Time
  • Like
  • Artist

• I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Good
  • Father

• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • War
  • Food
  • Reading

• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • She
  • Alone
  • Hand

• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Culture
  • Fake

• You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Wonderful
  • Buildings
  • Towns

• If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Control
  • Passionate

• Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Work
  • Retire
  • Quicker

• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Time
  • Humans
  • Machines

• The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Perfect
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Painful
  • Expensive
  • Polite

• I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Words

• There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

  

  Anabel Jensen
  • Emotions
  • Basic
  • Ones

• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Cancer
  • Influence

• Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Painful
  • Confusing
  • Verge