Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
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It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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We haven't seen the best of that, I think he's still feeling his way around but I heard he doesn't make any friends out there, a little Bobby Clarke style, and that's what we need.
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Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
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I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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When we started this band, we always concentrated on the songs. If we had five good songs together, we wouldn't just slap four more 'okay' ones together just so we could go out and play. That's why we spent so much time in that spoon factory in Sheffield before we went out to play. We did that first gig only because Steve was so pissed off and threatening to quit if we didn't go and play a gig. But there was always that feeling there - that we have to do it right. Or we don't do it at all.
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Charity cures heartaches.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.
