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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Despair is the only cure for illusion.
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We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
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To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
