Benjamin Carson Quotes
I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.
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No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
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A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.
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And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?
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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was the exception, of course, with Goldwater back in '64, which turned out to be a catastrophe. But it always seems that the Mitt Romneys and the East Coast types always end up winning the fights.
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Better not to exist than live basely.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
