Thomas Sowell Quotes
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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The child who defines a lie as being a 'naughty word' knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word 'lie'.
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You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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The point is that you can't be too greedy.
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I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
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I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.
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I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.
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Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.
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If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
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The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
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The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.
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What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yoke Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke!
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I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.
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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
