Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
J. R. Moehringer -
I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
Pat Buchanan -
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope -
I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
Art Spiegelman
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
Lin Yutang -
I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
Matt Bomer -
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
Matthew Desmond -
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Paulo Coelho -
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'
Jason Dohring -
Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites.
Kenneth Branagh
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Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
Jeff Giles -
I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.
Lennon Parham -
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.
Jane Siberry -
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
Chad Hurley -
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
Andy Rooney
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Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.
Georges Danton -
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis -
My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.
Pete Gallego -
Letter to Hitler, quoted in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm:
Benito Mussolini -
A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
Benjamin Alire Saenz