Ben Carson Quotes
It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
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Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.
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There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line; only now, I get to see what my players will do. How will they react? Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life.
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If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place.
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A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
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It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
