Benjamin Carson Quotes
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I want to help people; that's it.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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I want my music to be beautiful.
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Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
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Leadership does matter.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
