Benjamin Carson Quotes
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
-
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
-
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
-
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
-
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
-
I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
-
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
-
It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
-
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
-
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
-
My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
-
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
-
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
-
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
-
I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
-
My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
-
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
-
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
-
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
-
If I'm at home, I get up around 7:30. If I have time, I like to do some exercise. My current favourite is 'hot' yoga. If I'm filming, I will go to the office or set, and then take meetings.
-
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
-
I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.
-
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.
