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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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
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There are pieces of paper scattered everywhere on the floor of my brain.
