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.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Passion
  • Youth

• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Finding

• If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Characters

• I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Try
  • Tolerance

• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Another
  • Vegetarian
  • Guess

• I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• 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:

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Die
  • Fire
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Mind
  • King

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Why

• I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Work

• Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • True
  • Culture

• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fool
  • Compromise

• I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

  

  Jon Oringer

• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  

  Walker Evans
  • History
  • Future
  • Risk

• I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Future
  • Scary
  • Afraid