Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you? I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t un-Mexicanize me, Ari.

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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.
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Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
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Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
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The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.
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Its diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.