Benjamin Carson Quotes

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Benjamin Carson

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  

  Ina Garten
  • You
  • Everything
  • Nobody

• What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

  

  Major Owens
  • Enemy
  • Greatest
  • Segregation

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Me
  • Personal
  • Fascination

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Seen

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Young
  • Stage
  • New York

• Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Story

• A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Begin

• Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Path

• Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Support

• People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Effort

• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

  Christopher Egan

• I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just now, I wanted to punch you in the face. And then I had to remember you're an actor. So, congratulations!' Those are my accolades.

  

  Leo Fitzpatrick
  • Remember
  • Independent
  • Congratulations

• I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I'm proud of. I know that probably won't happen all the time. But I'd prefer to be telling stories I can be proud of and understand why they're being told. I do watch a lot of films and TV, but sometimes I think: "Why the hell did you make that then?" I won't say what they are though.

  

  Aisling Loftus
  • Proud
  • Stories
  • Telling

• A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Responsibility

• Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Responsibility
  • Streets
  • Take Care