Ben Carson Quotes
If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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In my mind, I don't really see myself as being famous. I just think my work is being exposed to a bigger audience.
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Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
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There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
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My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.
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If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.
