Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.
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Sincere. You are. You take the world home with you every night.
