Benjamin Carson Quotes
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.
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I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.
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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
