Benjamin Carson Quotes
I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.
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Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
