Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

If you want to be alive, you can’t avoid pain.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Door
  • Foot

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Gun
  • Just Because

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • History
  • Guy

• When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Different
  • Dream

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Hair

• It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • World
  • Men

• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Long
  • You
  • Study

• Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Force
  • Attain

• But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

  

  John Milton
  • Perfect
  • Pain
  • Misery

• But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

  

  Joshua Harris
  • Relationship
  • Pain
  • End

• If you want to be alive, you can’t avoid pain.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pain
  • Alive