Benjamin Carson Quotes

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Benjamin Carson

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Real
  • Together
  • Think

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • True

• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
  • Me
  • Always
  • Guest

• I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

  

  James Watkins
  • Different

• It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Business
  • Father

• I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Work
  • Father
  • Conclusion