Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I never ask him anything about the war. I guess it’s something he has to keep to himself. Maybe it’s a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself. But maybe that’s the way it has to be.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
LaToya Jackson -
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly -
I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
Gary Numan -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael -
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver -
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford -
Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
Jack Klugman -
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Garry Shandling
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
Nazanin Boniadi -
The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
Ogden Nash -
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
Frank Stella -
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Arthur Keith -
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
David Robinson The Cars -
Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
Pat Buchanan -
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Friedrich Nietzsche -
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
Scott Westerfeld -
'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
Christine Quinn -
I never ask him anything about the war. I guess it’s something he has to keep to himself. Maybe it’s a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself. But maybe that’s the way it has to be.
Benjamin Alire Saenz