Benjamin Carson Quotes
You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you...
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If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
