Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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I am happy with what I've done.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I wanted to do and the songs that my parents wanted me to do. You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I'd have to do 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Crazy Train,' and it was a really weird combination.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.
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Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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No one can run from a storm.
