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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five."

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"America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse."

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David Simon Television Producer
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"On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience."

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"I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up."

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