Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
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Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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The future of innovation has to include not only the technology, but economic viability.
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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.
