Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Maybe my dad just didn't need words to get by in the world. I wasn't like that. Well, I was like that on the outside, pretending not to need words. But I wasn't like that on the inside. I'd figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn't like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.
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So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Maybe my dad just didn't need words to get by in the world. I wasn't like that. Well, I was like that on the outside, pretending not to need words. But I wasn't like that on the inside. I'd figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn't like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.
