Benjamin Carson Quotes
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
Quotes to Explore
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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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May books spread the world over!
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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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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; -& they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them.
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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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.
