Benjamin Carson Quotes

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

Benjamin Carson

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Big

• D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

  

  Wale
  • Like
  • Person
  • Agree

• There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Things
  • Horror
  • Here

• We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Audience

• I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Worry
  • Parent
  • Scary

• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Slavery

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Life
  • Environment

• You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Career

• I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility

• Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Time

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

  

  John Irving
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Need
  • Standup