Ben Carson Quotes
When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
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When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
