Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I did a couple of American Express commercials.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Bitcoin's success will guarantee Bitcoin's success.
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The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
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Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
