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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I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
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I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
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So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
