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 got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'
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We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.
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When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
