Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
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If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
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But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
