Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Our parents are really weird. Because they love us? That’s not so weird. It’s how they love us that’s weird.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have my career and my family, and that's it.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'
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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
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The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
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Our parents are really weird. Because they love us? That’s not so weird. It’s how they love us that’s weird.
