Ben Carson Quotes

Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Think

• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dark
  • Very
  • Southern

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • American
  • America

• It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Reality
  • Rules
  • Old

• My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Music
  • Taste
  • Entertainment

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Family
  • Society
  • Rest

• I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

  

  Michael Harney
  • Experience
  • Person
  • Redemption

• No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Movie

• Every experience that you have is important.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Experience

• The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Moving
  • Economy

• Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Experience
  • Knowledge