Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Yelawolf
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
Jackie Speier
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Patrice O'Neal
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
P. J. O'Rourke
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When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.
Ani DiFranco
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...Вы сильны лишь постольку, поскольку отбираете у людей не всё. Но человек, у которого вы отобрали всё, - уже неподвластен вам, он снова свободен.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
Eileen Myles
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
Jenny Han
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
Xaviera Hollander
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There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.
T. S. Eliot
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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If you can’t put it into words, then you just don’t know.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
