Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I love my country so much.
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I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
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You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'
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Some people are so beautiful that they belong everywhere they go.
