Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.
