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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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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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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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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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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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
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When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
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I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.
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I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.
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I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
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I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.
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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.
