Ben Carson Quotes
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
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Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
