Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

This is my theory: the people who shouldn't hate themselves, do hate themselves. And the people who should hate themselves, don't hate themselves. The world is all backwards. See, this is one of the many reasons why God and I are not good friends.

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Long
  • Very
  • Function

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • America
  • Man
  • Best

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Black
  • Government

• I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Science
  • Working
  • Cancer

• No one 'voted in' the market economy and the industrial revolution, but today issues of direction of the economy, costs, redress, priorities, and goals all have become matters of conscious and debated social policy.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Today
  • Revolution
  • Goals

• He would not journey without a foot. He would not breed nuts without trees, Like seeking for ants in the heath. Like an instrument of foolish spoil, Like the retinue of an army without a head, Like feeding the unsheltered on lichen.

  

  Taliesin
  • Journey
  • Army

• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Think
  • Common Sense
  • Good Share

• One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!

  

  Eugene Sue
  • Alive
  • Well

• A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• This is my theory: the people who shouldn't hate themselves, do hate themselves. And the people who should hate themselves, don't hate themselves. The world is all backwards. See, this is one of the many reasons why God and I are not good friends.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Hate
  • Theory