Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
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I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.
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I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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It’s not a good idea to jump into the sewer to catch a rat.
