Benjamin Carson Quotes
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
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I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.
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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
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Broadband, wireless, and technology services have become a vibrant sector of our national economy with the potential to both empower and invest in our communities.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
