Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.
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I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.
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Some remedies are worse than the disease.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
