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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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
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I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
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I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.
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Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.
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In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you? I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t un-Mexicanize me, Ari.