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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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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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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I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
