Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
We laughed again. We couldn’t stop. I wondered what it was we were laughing about. Was it just our names? Were we laughing because we were relieved? Were we happy? Laughter was another one of life’s mysteries.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
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Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to contribute to the win.
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If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.
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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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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
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People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
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When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
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I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?
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We laughed again. We couldn’t stop. I wondered what it was we were laughing about. Was it just our names? Were we laughing because we were relieved? Were we happy? Laughter was another one of life’s mysteries.
