Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Empowering

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Me
  • See
  • Australia

• Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Men
  • Book
  • Minds

• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Important
  • Love
  • Treat

• I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Consequences

• Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.

  

  Watt Key
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Strong
  • Values
  • Management

• I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Like

• I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Moving

• I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.

  

  Kage Baker

• I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

  

  Collis Potter Huntington
  • Country
  • Success

• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Mercy

• But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.

  

  Keith David
  • Life
  • Fun

• It's difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Alone

• When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • School
  • House
  • Tree

• Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Lost

• He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Happy
  • Afraid
  • Wondered