George Benson Quotes

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

George Benson

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • True
  • Animal
  • Speak

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • World
  • Truth
  • Finding

• The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Live
  • Death
  • Fear

• In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Real

• I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Irish

• I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People
  • Deep

• A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

  

  Chris Wedge
  • People

• When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Boy
  • Dying

• As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dad

• But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more.

  

  Johnny Damon
  • Wife

• It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

  

  John Niven
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Food

• I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • God

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Single
  • Hand
  • Car

• I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Audience
  • Characters

• Odds are, you’ll live a whole adult lifetime that wasn’t available to your parents and grandparents. Their life expectancy at birth was fifty years. We have two lifetimes now. Life I is what occurs before halftime, and Life II comes afterward.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Parents
  • Birth
  • Lifetime

• There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying “leaning on my own understanding and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Way
  • Faith

• I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

  

  George Benson
  • Hawaii
  • New Jersey
  • Inglewood