Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
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Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
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I happened to be in England and three of us got together. Ali was filmed in North Carolina. But that is the thing with technology today. You don’t have to be together to do a video or an album. Everything can go through the internet. Streaming makes things possible.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
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You know what I think, Ari? I think Mexicans don’t like me.
