Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Walter Ulbricht
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
Victoria Pendleton
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
Iggy Pop
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
Idina Menzel
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
Gail Porter
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
Gavin Newsom
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
F. Sionil Jose
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
Samantha Isler
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
Rand Paul
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V. S. Naipaul
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
Viktor Orban
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.
Flavor Flav
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
Tammy Blanchard
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Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
Mark Cuban
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Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
Stewart Udall
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
Gabe Newell
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell