Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
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I have a suggestion for Microsoft — no fancy programming required. Just let us users hang out a 'Do Not Disturb' sign. Then leave us alone. We're dreaming.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
