Benjamin Carson Quotes
If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I don't like allegories.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
