Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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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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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.
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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.
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People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing.
