Ben Carson Quotes
I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Life is like an analogy.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion.
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress - things like getting lost, getting broken.
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I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.
