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.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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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

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

  

  Moliere
  • Behavior
  • Ridiculous
  • Slandering

• I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Expression

• I want to be a Hall of Famer, go to Pro Bowls every year - just make sure my name is remembered after I leave.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Name
  • Make
  • Leave

• I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.

  

  Sarah Parcak
  • Globe
  • Ancients
  • Satellites

• I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Life
  • Loved
  • Calm

• If you are not the best, then pretend you are.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Best
  • Pretend

• So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Energy
  • Judge
  • Madman

• And despite promising “everything I’ve got,” President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, à la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.

  

  Bill Press
  • Force
  • President Obama
  • Presidency

• 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