Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
Warren Beatty -
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
Malin Akerman -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
Cam -
Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
Rand Paul
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First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
Dan Fouts -
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Val Kilmer -
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash -
On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos -
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Gary Gygax
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
H. L. Mencken -
If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
Leonardo da Vinci -
He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
Rihanna -
This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
Andy Hobsbawm -
If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.
Amanda Hearst
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I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.
Mickey Cochrane -
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson -
As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
Samuel Johnson -
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
Sheryl Crow -
Tears. They’re like seeds in a watermelon. Good for spitting out.
Benjamin Alire Saenz