Ben Carson Quotes
I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.
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Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?
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I've had people say I'm inconsistent, and sure, I've never held a UFC or WEC title.
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
