Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wondered if that’s what death sounded like. Like a snowflake falling on the ground.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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Success is overrated.
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If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.
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People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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Try to find ways to be as excited as a child who finds a penny on the ground.
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Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.
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I wondered if that’s what death sounded like. Like a snowflake falling on the ground.
