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'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 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 went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!
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I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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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.
