Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
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There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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I don't like whining about the challenges I face while I work. I know they are for the better so I can rise stronger and better.
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
