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 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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• 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.

  

  Pat Conroy
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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.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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.

  

  Rachel Carson
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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.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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• Viewed up close, nobody is normal.

  

  Caetano Veloso
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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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• Democrats need to be careful about how they proceed. If they come across as weak on national defense, an issue where the president is strong ... they will pay a price.

  

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• I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

  

  Raymond Moody
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• By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Judgment
  • Principles
  • Violation