Benjamin Carson Quotes
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)
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I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
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Words are my life.
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I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.
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I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
