Thomas Sowell Quotes
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
