Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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Who peppered the highest was surest to please.
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That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
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On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
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In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.) If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of - Christianity and Islam.
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We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
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I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.
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This boy would dream her forever.
