Benjamin Carson Quotes
The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.
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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
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In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
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It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.
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The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
