Ben Carson Quotes
The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
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My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
