Benjamin Carson Quotes

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Benjamin Carson

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• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Talent

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Dirtiest

• I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Work Hard

• It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Comedy

• If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

  

  Christopher Lambert
  • Good
  • Family
  • Respect

• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Me

• Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Kids
  • Hypocrisy
  • Blocks