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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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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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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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.
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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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It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.
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People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.
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The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?
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Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
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Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.
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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.
