Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
We looked at each other. We didn’t really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.
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Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
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Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.
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I do not know what it means to be okay. I have never known and maybe I will never know. Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
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We looked at each other. We didn’t really smile. But we were smiling at each other on the inside.
