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

• 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

• 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's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Movie

• Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

  

  Chris Frantz Talking Heads
  • Christmas

• Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Kids
  • College
  • Kind

• Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

  

  John Constable
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • Yoga

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

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pain
  • Alive