Ben Carson Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.
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The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
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Multiculturalism is a unicultural phenomenon.
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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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We don't have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.
