Benjamin Carson Quotes
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
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We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
