Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

About a boy who had a beautiful heart, and how that boy could make plants grow and how he could make people say good things—even people who liked to say only bad things.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Music
  • Piano

• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Power
  • America
  • Society

• As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Football
  • Share
  • Street

• There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Passionate

• I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Capture

• I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Wish

• If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

  

  Victor Webster
  • You
  • Bored
  • Challenged

• I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • People

• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.

  

  Marion Barry
  • People

• About a boy who had a beautiful heart, and how that boy could make plants grow and how he could make people say good things—even people who liked to say only bad things.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad Things