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 -
Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor
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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 -
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Bertrand Russell -
I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.
LeRoy Neiman
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
Andrew Cuomo -
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
Gavid Hood -
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
Ed Parker -
The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.
Abraham Myerson -
Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.
John Calvin -
Moms and God generally get along pretty well.
Benjamin Alire Saenz