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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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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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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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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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.
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Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
