Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
Karl Schroeder -
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin -
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
Dan Webster -
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner -
The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
Manti Te'o
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I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out.
Tamara Tunie -
My interest is in making sure we‘ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought out oil strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage. I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.
Barack Obama -
'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
Orson Scott Card -
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
Dido Armstrong -
I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.
Laz Alonso -
Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Jason Biggs
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Both my parents are artists, so that just makes me look at everything slightly different. I listened to different music; I dressed differently. So I kind of grew up without following the pack.
Jason Momoa -
I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.
John Schlesinger -
Grub first, then ethics.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
Beji Caid Essebsi -
One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.
John Dickerson -
It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
Benjamin Alire Saenz