Benjamin Carson Quotes

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

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• I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • See
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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Great
  • Look
  • Traditions

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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  • Good
  • Work

• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Funny
  • Breaks
  • Bends

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• Wit is cultured insolence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wit
  • Insolence
  • Cultured

• I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos

• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

  

  David Tang
  • Opinion
  • Lies

• My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

  

  Lauren Bowles
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  • Great

• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Grief

• I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.

  

  Adam Scott
  • People
  • Work

• I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Fashion
  • Learned
  • Corruption

• [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

  

  Danah Zohar
  • Universe
  • Things
  • Happen

• East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.

  

  Edith Pattou
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  • Goal

• Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • World
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Forget
  • Meet
  • Actress

• Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Reason
  • Brain
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