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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
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Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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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.
