Benjamin Carson Quotes

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Benjamin Carson

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• There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Women
  • History

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • She
  • Want
  • Me

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Children
  • Family
  • Dad

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Humanity

• Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • True
  • Girl

• I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Money
  • Control

• The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • People

• Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Stock

• It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Thoughts

• In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Golf

• As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Teenager

• Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Today

• A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • She
  • Pretty

• You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.

  

  David Deida
  • Work
  • God
  • Family

• Just because you are on TV, it doesn't mean you're not going to make mistakes.

  

  Tyler James Williams

• To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Support

• Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Children
  • Choices
  • Role Models