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Carson Kressley Television Personality
Love

“Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.”

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Carson Kressley Television Personality
Determined

“If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.”

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Carson Kressley Television Personality
Compassionate

“My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.”

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Carson Palmer Football Player
Sad

“So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.”

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Carson Palmer Football Player
Hopeful

“Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.”

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Ben Younger Director
Thoughtful

“"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.”

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Ben Younger Director
Grateful

“You know, you kinda think you're gonna have to work for twenty years before you get to work with Meryl Streep. So getting to work with her... I almost feel like I didn't pay enough dues, it was pretty incredible. I always thought I'd work with her, I just didn't think it would happen at this point in my career.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Wise

“And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Courageous

“I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Courageous

“We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Confident

“Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Determined

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Funny

“(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Courageous

“Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Grateful

“I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Thoughtful

“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'”

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