Ben Carson Quotes
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
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We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
