Thomas Sowell Quotes
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.
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It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who need the music to read from than for those who play by ear.
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To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
