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 particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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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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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
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Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
