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?'
Quotes to Explore
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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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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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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?'
