Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
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I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
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When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.
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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.'
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He’s so cute I would have thrown myself in front of a moving car too.
