Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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I want to go down in history.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
