Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.
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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
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The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I loved the different rules of summer.
