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.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Way
  • Down
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• And that's the way it is.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Long
  • Television

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Support
  • Greatest
  • Fan

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• 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.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Own

• I love men's wear.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Love
  • I Love

• I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Giving
  • Technology
  • Personality

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Law

• Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Death
  • Past
  • Enemy

• I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Beautiful

• In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Heart
  • Character
  • History

• We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

  

  John Battelle
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Truth

• 'All the doctors that have examined you state that you appear to have no friends or family relationships and you are incapable of any sort of empathy. In short…you’re perfect for this job.'

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Family
  • Job
  • Friends

• But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Good Word