Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Who hurt you? When did it happen? How many times? Where? Tell me. Why do you hate yourself? Where do you keep the hurt?

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• There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Evil
  • Moment
  • Injustice

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writer
  • Use

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Trying
  • Best

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Time
  • Long
  • Peace

• One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Period

• America is the paradise of lawyers.

  

  Lawyer
  • America
  • Paradise

• Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy

• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Girl

• We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• I'm not a mean person.

  

  Darren Criss

• I always believe in the projects I do.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Believe

• I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Writing
  • Inspired

• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  

  Jessica McNamee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • May
  • Soul

• And then it was between Shane and Claire on who retreated first. "Uou go," he said. "Why?" Shane and Pete exchangedblooks. "Seriously?" Pete asked. "Yeah, she's like that," Shane said, and turned to her. "Because you're my girlfriend, and I'm not going unti; I know you're safe. How's that?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Dad
  • Hurt

• Who hurt you? When did it happen? How many times? Where? Tell me. Why do you hate yourself? Where do you keep the hurt?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hurt