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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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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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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It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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.
