Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

You’re such a school teacher.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Know
  • Race

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Funny

• I just don't feel limited by genre.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony

• Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Women
  • Action
  • Bold

• I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Dream
  • Vision

• 'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Question
  • Fly

• We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • People
  • Time

• I love New York. I love L.A. too. I love both places.

  

  Alex Pettyfer

• Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Night
  • Thoughts
  • Paris

• I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Important
  • Education

• It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

  

  Lou Diamond Phillips

• My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • World
  • Home
  • Movie

• At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Stop
  • Evil
  • Decision

• History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Up
  • History
  • Coffee

• When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Important
  • School
  • Law

• I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Different

• A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • American
  • War
  • Military

• Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Relationship
  • Scared
  • Obstacle

• You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Music
  • Want

• My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Men
  • Book
  • Food

• You’re such a school teacher.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • School Teacher