Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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Of course I get hurt.
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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.
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Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life.
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A country will never love you like a woman.
