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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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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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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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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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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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
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I have gay friends in my life who are conservative. I have gay friends in my life who are for gay marriage and against gay marriage. I believe in an open and free debate.
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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?
