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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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'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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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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I'm a student of the game.
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I didn't get acne until after college, and I was very concerned, not only because I didn't have the discipline to not pick at my face but then that would lead to scarring and more acne - it's a vicious cycle that can be broken!
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
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When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
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Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
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We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
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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.
