Benjamin Carson Quotes
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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.'
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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.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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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.
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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.'
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.
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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.
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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.
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both 'The Hunger Games' and 'Catching Fire' delivered: 'Mockingjay' is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne's Collins's world and books and characters as we can put out!
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Every market, even a socialist market, is a system of predation. Our attempt to get beyond predation has thus far failed. I do not think the right conclusion is to give up.
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This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.
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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
