Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine -
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver -
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D. H. Lawrence -
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
Forest Whitaker -
Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
Fat Joe -
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
Carine Roitfeld -
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
Washed Out -
If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
Olivia Munn
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Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor -
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
L. Neil Smith -
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
Yehudi Menuhin -
I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.
Vachel Lindsay
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A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.
Chris Owen -
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
Elaine Pagels -
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown -
I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
Valerie June -
Moms and God generally get along pretty well.
Benjamin Alire Saenz