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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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
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The paths of Europe and Russia are seriously diverging and will remain so for a long time ... probably for decades to come.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
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I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.
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There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
