Benjamin Carson Quotes
I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
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I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
