Thomas Sowell Quotes
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
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I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
