Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
He started crying. Dante and his tears. Dante and his tears. You pushed me. You pushed me and you saved my life.

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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
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Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.
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Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
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He started crying. Dante and his tears. Dante and his tears. You pushed me. You pushed me and you saved my life.