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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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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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 don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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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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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
