Ben Carson Quotes
We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
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Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.
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We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?
