Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal? Is that something I should aspire to?

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• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Believe
  • Easy

• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
  • Different
  • Everything
  • New

• If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Google
  • Website

• I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • School
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • First
  • First Time

• I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Strategy

• No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

  

  Archimedes
  • Earth
  • Perimeter
  • Stadia

• But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

  

  John Milton
  • End
  • Moon
  • Corners

• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  

  Ben Ames Williams
  • Business
  • Choice
  • Life is

• First, you can’t go it alone. If we’re going to have a true impact on financial inclusion, we must work together on behalf of the 2.5 billion who are currently excluded.

  

  Ajaypal Singh Banga
  • Together
  • Financial
  • Impact

• Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Environment
  • Journey
  • Determined

• Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Nature
  • Mystery
  • Honors

• We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • America
  • Speak
  • Said

• The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Impossible
  • Normal

• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Experience
  • Depression
  • Normal

• Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal? Is that something I should aspire to?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Normal
  • Aspire