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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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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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 love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
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Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
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I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.
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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.
