Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Maybe I was a little superior. But I don't think I was superior. I just didn't understand how to talk to them, how to be myself around them. Being around other guys didn't make me feel smarter. Being around other guys made me feel stupid and inadequate. It was like they were all part of this club and I wasn't a member.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Smart
  • Try
  • Invest

• It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Choices

• You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Team

• If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Great
  • School

• My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Mom
  • Smart
  • Yourself

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • Free
  • Small

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Smart

• Tony Allen is a good defender, very smart.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Good
  • Smart

• As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Moving

• Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Live
  • Society
  • Support

• Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

  

  Anna Soubry
  • Lies
  • Overweight
  • Deprived

• I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

  

  Jennifer Lopez

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Maybe I was a little superior. But I don't think I was superior. I just didn't understand how to talk to them, how to be myself around them. Being around other guys didn't make me feel smarter. Being around other guys made me feel stupid and inadequate. It was like they were all part of this club and I wasn't a member.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Member