Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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I'm not a homophobic.
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I hold no dream of fortune vast,Nor seek undying fame.I do not ask when life is pastThat many know my name.I may not own the skill to riseTo glory's topmost height,Nor win a place among the wise,But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earthContented to the end,If but a few shall know my worthAnd proudly call me friend.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
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We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.
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Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.
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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
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I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
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There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
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I think I’m the stupidest smart boy who ever lived.
