George Benson Quotes
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
-
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
-
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
-
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
-
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
-
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
-
When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
-
Focus on remedies, not faults.
-
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
-
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
-
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
-
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
-
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
-
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
-
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
-
But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
-
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
-
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
-
I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
-
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
-
To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
-
Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!
-
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
