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.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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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.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
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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.
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Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.
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Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
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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.
