Benjamin Carson Quotes
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
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Artists can do whatever they want!
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My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
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I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
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I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was taller than they were, but I've no idea that this ever happened. When I did 'Much Ado About Nothing' opposite Mark Rylance in the West End, we used the difference in our heights as part of their relationship.
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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
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I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
