Benjamin Carson Quotes
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
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Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.
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When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
