Benjamin Carson Quotes
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I'm fearless, to a degree.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.
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He’s marrying me to have a faithful servant, that’s the reason all men get married.
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We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
