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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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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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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When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.
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I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.
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I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.
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That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.
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I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
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Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
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I'm very interested in 3D.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
