Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.
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A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
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Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
