Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
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Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.
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Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest oneHave limits to its mercy; God has none.
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I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
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For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.
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You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
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When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
