Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I told you that there were only two things you needed to learn in life. You needed to learn how to forgive. And you needed to learn how to be happy.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
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If you really want to stab me do it without saying anything.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
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I told you that there were only two things you needed to learn in life. You needed to learn how to forgive. And you needed to learn how to be happy.
