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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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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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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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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My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.
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I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.
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Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.
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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
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The percept takes priority of the concept.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
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Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.
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You need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
