Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
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When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
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Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.
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We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
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The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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Sarcasm doesn't grow on the same stalk as humility.
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You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
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Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
