Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Great
  • Think
  • Chinese

• I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

  

  Randy Falco
  • American
  • Culture
  • Influence

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Blessed

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Best

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • You
  • Question

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

  

  George Michael
  • Career
  • Television
  • Cards

• For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend.

  

  Jay Nixon
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Time
  • Done
  • She

• Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Friend
  • Pride

• You live and you learn. When we were younger we wanted to party nonstop and have a good time. That’s all good, but things are different now. We still have our little bit of fun in both worlds. It’s nice to be able to travel the world with the kids.

  

  Noah Bernardo P.O.D.
  • Live
  • Want
  • Learn

• He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Friend
  • Learn
  • Girls