Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
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I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.
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In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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There are pieces of paper scattered everywhere on the floor of my brain.
