Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising.

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• Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Kids
  • Laughing
  • Died

• Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Done
  • Made
  • Own

• Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Honor
  • Ordinary

• I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Success

• I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Business
  • Want
  • Football

• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Writers
  • Liars

• Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Future
  • Medicine
  • Frequencies

• Who can control his fate?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Destiny
  • Fate

• I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Consumers

• It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Funny
  • Change
  • Summer

• Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

  

  Moliere
  • Behavior
  • Ridiculous
  • Slandering

• I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Responsibility
  • Mentoring

• I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Want
  • Prayer
  • Chance

• Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Spiritual
  • Appropriate
  • Classical

• I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll

• I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pretend
  • Behaviors
  • Promising