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

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mind
  • Compound
  • Soaring

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I first started out on the soap, I was more theatrical, like a stage actor, a little bigger than life. As I did more and more Love Of Life, I became more natural. I learned the value of underplaying. It was a great training ground for me. There was a big difference in my style of acting from where I started with that show and where I ended, and where I ended was a good jumping-off point for doing nighttime television and movies.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Training
  • Natural
  • Theatrical

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

  

  George Benson
  • Hawaii
  • New Jersey
  • Inglewood