Ben Carson Quotes
Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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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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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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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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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I'm always late.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
