Benjamin Carson Quotes
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
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When you look at nations today like England, in which great revivals occurred generations ago, there's very little vestige of Christianity left in public life. The Church, by and large, is dead, with only pockets of small Bible-believing churches struggling to make an impact on what's now a very pagan culture.
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This fight figures to be crunk
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
