Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted—because the light was gone.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,Giving a soul to her manifold features,Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
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Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
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I'm a very musical person.
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My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.
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The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.
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Maybe the sun had set. Maybe the rainbow had lifted—because the light was gone.
