Benjamin Carson Quotes

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

Benjamin Carson

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• All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Start

• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Better
  • Peaceful

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Moment

• We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Strong
  • Speech
  • Finish

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Color
  • Battle
  • Monster

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • War
  • Future
  • Peace

• That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • World
  • Science
  • End

• The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • American
  • Society

• Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Together
  • Party
  • Trump

• On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

  

  David Gest
  • World
  • She

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

  

  Will Durant
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

  

  David Letterman
  • God
  • Home

• I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Small

• You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Brain
  • Self-confidence