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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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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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.
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I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.
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If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.
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Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.
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It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue 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.
