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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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 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'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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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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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
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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.
