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 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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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
