Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash.
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Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.
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My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
