Benjamin Carson Quotes
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I don't care about revenues.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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I write very slowly.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!
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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
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The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.
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I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.
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I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
