Ben Carson Quotes

I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.

Ben Carson

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Real
  • Name
  • Last

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • Same
  • Broadway

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Like

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Confused

• There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Hope
  • Lose
  • Looking Forward

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Brain

• Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Practice

• You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Science
  • Progress

• My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Life

• I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Girl

• I have a lot of books I want to write.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  

  Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • Pride
  • Achievement
  • Celebration

• 'Trumbo' is conventional in its structure, mixing interviews with archival footage. What I enjoyed most about the film was its liberal use of his own personal letters to friends and family, performed dramatically by well-known actors.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Family
  • Friends

• There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Good
  • Simple

• I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead

• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Paradise
  • Superman

• What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • God

• I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.

  

  Ben Carson