Benjamin Carson Quotes
That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.
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I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
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What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
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We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
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...now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
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That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
