Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
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If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
