Ben Carson Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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One of the great truths of life: I did not do it alone. I had help along the way.
