Ben Carson Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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You have yourself to blame.
