Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
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Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
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Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do.
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If you want to be alive, you can’t avoid pain.
