Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I can prove there are madmen—but I can't prove the monster exists. Who was it that whispered the warning? Listen close, the sky is falling.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.
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The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
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Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
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I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
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You learn to accept your own reality.
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It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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The PlayStation 2 is a historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.
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I can prove there are madmen—but I can't prove the monster exists. Who was it that whispered the warning? Listen close, the sky is falling.
