Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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And that's the way it is.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I regret all of my books.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I love men's wear.
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
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I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
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Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
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I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
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But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word.
