Thomas Sowell Quotes
The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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I believe in the jury system.
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The European way is also the United Nations' way. And we believe in the U.N. because we believe in the same principles, in the same values, and our communities are built upon the same fundamental ideals.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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My answer to that i.e. the question of whether Ruth hoped to set a new single-season HR record was 'No.' I don't believe I can ever better my 60 mark that I made in 1927. And, frankly, I don't believe anyone else will beat it for a long time either.
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I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
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I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
