Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Some day we’ll all be happy. I promise you. And there won’t be any more fighting.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.
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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
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My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
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I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Some day we’ll all be happy. I promise you. And there won’t be any more fighting.
