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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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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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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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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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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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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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
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Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers.
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
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I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
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Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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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?
