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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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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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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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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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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That life is long which answers life's great end.
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My goal is to change the art industry.
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I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.
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Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.
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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.
