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 -
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 -
Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
Rachel Sklar -
It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
Illeana Douglas -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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 -
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 -
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
Colonel Sanders -
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon -
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Patrick Henry -
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
Bill Ford
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I'm in a nightmare.
Trixie Mattel -
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe -
The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
Neal Bascomb -
Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.
Benjamin Alire Saenz