Benjamin Carson Quotes
It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.
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The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.
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I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
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I don't know what it is, but French men love me.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically.
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I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
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It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
