Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.
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Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
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I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
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Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.
