Ben Carson Quotes
Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
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As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.
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I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
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As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
