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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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'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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We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.
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As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind.
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
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I've coached people who were ranked number one in the country but didn't get any support while other areas of sport got medium to full funding, even though the individuals had no hope of getting on to the rostrum.
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Extreme situation in which Germany finds itself, we have no choice but to vote for the grand coalition.
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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.
