Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I'm trying not to be ashamed...

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Writer
  • Become

• Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • President
  • Texas
  • Ashamed

• I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Proud

• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Men
  • Made
  • Bed

• "Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

  

  Nadine Shah
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Dirty

• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Ashamed
  • Innocence

• I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Night
  • Ashamed
  • Left

• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  

  Socrates
  • Money
  • Reputation
  • Concerned

• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Ashamed
  • Philosophies

• And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long
  • Way
  • Ashamed

• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  

  Confucius
  • Country
  • Ashamed
  • Governed

• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ignorance
  • Ashamed
  • Heartily

• We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Behavior
  • Ashamed
  • Motives

• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Pride

• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Values
  • Generations
  • Ashamed

• My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Real
  • Truth

• Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Forget

• Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • Struggle

• I'm trying not to be ashamed...

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Ashamed