Benjamin Carson Quotes
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.Benjamin Carson
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
Brown Campbell -
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
Daniel Ek -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy -
I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
Eden Sher -
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
Paloma Faith
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
Randy Newman -
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
Yoko Ono -
The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell -
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde -
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.
Ara Parseghian -
Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.
Don McCullin -
It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
Brandon Stanton -
I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.
Daniel Tammet -
It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.
Elodie Yung
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
Zhang Ziyi -
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce Dern -
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
Freddie Highmore -
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
Dan Stevens -
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
Mark Zuckerberg -
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
Benjamin Carson