Ben Carson Quotes
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
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What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
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Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
