Ben Carson Quotes
Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's like World's Ugliest Man - I'm an automatic winner in that category.
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like that again. We'll just have to see.
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
