Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
It all happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning, only the lightning wasn’t coming from the sky, it was coming from somewhere inside of me.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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It all happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning, only the lightning wasn’t coming from the sky, it was coming from somewhere inside of me.
