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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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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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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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
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It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.
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When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.
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The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.