Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Dante and I were cursed with parents who cared. Why couldn't they just leave us alone? What ever happened to parents who were too busy or too selfish or just didn't give a shit about what their sons did?
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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Hey Uncle SamPut your name at the top of his listAnd the Statue of LibertyStarted shaking her fist.And the eagle will flyMan, it's gonna be hellWhen you hear Mother FreedomStart ringing her bellAnd it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on youBrought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.
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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
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The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
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Dante and I were cursed with parents who cared. Why couldn't they just leave us alone? What ever happened to parents who were too busy or too selfish or just didn't give a shit about what their sons did?
