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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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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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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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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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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I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.
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I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
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There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
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Boy, if you dont have the network and the producers that believe in you, it's too, too much.
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This boy would dream her forever.
