Benjamin Carson Quotes
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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A penny saved is two pence clear.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.
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Wow. From my vantage point, that was fun to watch. I became a fan there for a while. He was really spectacular.
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No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
