Benjamin Carson Quotes
I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
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I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
