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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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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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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He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
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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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Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!
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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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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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The storm was fierce. But I wasn’t afraid. I knew my father’s love was fiercer than any storm.
