Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
Olivia Holt -
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright -
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf -
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
Oliver E. Williamson -
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
Vince Carter -
I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson -
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee -
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Adam McKay -
I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
Tammy Blanchard -
Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
Oprah Winfrey
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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
Joanne Rowling -
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes -
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
Naomi Klein -
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin -
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
Alex Berenson -
We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
Andy Dunn
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I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
Mark McGrath Sugar Ray -
When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.
Crystal Bowersox -
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
Sunil Mittal -
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde -
Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck.
Benjamin Alire Saenz