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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Tali Lennox
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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.
Ted Chiang
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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.
Vannevar Bush
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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.
Larry Kramer
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I always love China, especially the old China.
Manolo Blahnik
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
Hank Johnson
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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.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell
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Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
Eldridge Cleaver
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
Karen Kain
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison
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It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
P. D. James
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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
A. J. P. Taylor
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
