Benjamin Carson Quotes
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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Everyone truly does have God given gifts... Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
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A good education is a foundation for a better future.
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When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
