Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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The understanding's there and my job is to get my good kicking game in and whenever there's go-forward give the ball to him in space as much as possible because he's a special player.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I'm just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want 'cause I'm a fan of hip-hop.
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When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
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It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.
