Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
And afterward, we played Frisbee with Legs in the park and we were all right. And I needed us to be all right. And he needed us to be all right too. And so we were.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
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Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
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These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn't next weekend, and it's not last week, it's right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and I think of all the stories I'm in. I think about all the stories that are in my story. I think about all the stories that are left to be written. And it might be my favorite book yet.
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Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves.
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Nobody notices when things go right.
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Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.
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And afterward, we played Frisbee with Legs in the park and we were all right. And I needed us to be all right. And he needed us to be all right too. And so we were.
