Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
Lamorne Morris -
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson -
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke -
When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
Salman Rushdie
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
Forest Whitaker -
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper -
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann -
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson -
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Pamela Meyer -
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
Daniel Barenboim
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
Karlie Kloss -
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden -
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
Laura Linney -
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
Wayne Dyer -
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Wendell Berry -
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
Dan Gilbert
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I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
Yasmin Paige -
I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.
J. B. Pritzker -
Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.
Michael McMillian -
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
Benjamin Alire Saenz