Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The storm was fierce. But I wasn’t afraid. I knew my father’s love was fiercer than any storm.

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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
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I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
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Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
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I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.
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You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
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Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of - it was the other creatures of the night.
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
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The storm was fierce. But I wasn’t afraid. I knew my father’s love was fiercer than any storm.