Benjamin Carson Quotes
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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Cien hombres, juntos, son la centésima parte de un hombre.
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If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.
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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.
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The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
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Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
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You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.
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When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
