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 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 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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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've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
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I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
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I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
