Ben Carson Quotes
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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Only the young die good.
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I love to play gigs.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
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I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
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I like where I live here, in London.
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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
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Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
