Benjamin Carson Quotes

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• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Stress

• If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Don't Know
  • Onstage
  • Tubes

• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  

  William Appleman Williams
  • Fighting
  • Politician
  • Argument

• Shut off the internal bashing.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Teenage
  • Internals

• My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Lost

• There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Question

• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Album
  • Scream
  • Resonates

• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gentleman
  • Contradiction
  • Nose

• I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

  

  Kay Hooper
  • Thinking
  • Decision
  • Choices

• There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Manipulated

• Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Material

• When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

  

  Rumi
  • Against
  • Dust
  • Blows

• Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Manipulated
  • Uninformed