Ben Carson Quotes
My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I'm easily entertained.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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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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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.
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I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
