Benjamin Carson Quotes

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

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• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Sleep

• I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Friends
  • College
  • Quiet

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Think
  • Control
  • Seem

• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Trying
  • Fool
  • Said

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Terms
  • MAle
  • Perfectly

• Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good
  • Guy

• I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' before I ever went to 'Johnny Carson.' At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn't believe it.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Done

• We've got to look at waste, fraud, and abuse across the board.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Abuse

• In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan

• I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?

  

  Brooke Elliott
  • Good

• I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Life
  • Men
  • Strong

• Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Children
  • Character

• What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Want
  • Safety
  • Framed

• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Health
  • Safety
  • New

• But if any other course, in any one's opinion, be better than this, let him, even though he be a private soldier, boldly give us his sentiments; for the safety, which we all seek, is a general concern.

  

  Xenophon
  • Opinion
  • Safety
  • Soldier

• One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Up
  • Safety

• I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Safety
  • Rid
  • Dependency