Thomas Sowell Quotes
People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
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There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
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In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
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People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.
