Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
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Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
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Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness.
