Ben Carson Quotes

You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

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• It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Simple

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Financial
  • Weapons
  • Finance

• Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Relationships
  • Carry
  • Ending

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• Belief is thought at rest.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Rest
  • Thought
  • Belief

• I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Spring
  • New York
  • Down

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Different
  • Film
  • Doing

• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Workers

• I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Team
  • Artist
  • Better

• I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Political
  • Action
  • Fight

• MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Always
  • Lips
  • Cosmetics

• According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Broken
  • Poet
  • Mouth

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Thinking
  • Know
  • Busy

• I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Silent
  • Block
  • Responding

• People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

  

  Arthur Rock
  • People
  • Business

• I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Star
  • Identity

• You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

  

  Ben Carson