Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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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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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.
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We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. (xx)
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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I used to put down my experiences and beliefs and e-mail them to friends ever since I was a freshman.
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When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they're gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That's just the way the business is. I'm not complaining.
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
