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.'

Benjamin Carson

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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• 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!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Great
  • School
  • Going

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• 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.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Church
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• 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.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • School
  • Law
  • Back To School

• Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Problem
  • Goal
  • Bridge

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Why
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

  

  Mary Beard

• 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.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Amazing

• Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Men
  • May

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

• If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

  

  Jason Patric
  • Business
  • Today

• 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.'

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Education
  • Television
  • Issues