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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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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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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Viewed up close, nobody is normal.
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If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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Intuition with certainty is judgment.
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Mi voz me dice: 'Así es todo'. Y el eco de mi voz me dice: 'Así eres tú'.
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I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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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.
