Thomas Sowell Quotes
The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.
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Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
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Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.
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I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the people of Andhra embraced my Telangana dialect.
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The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
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Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.
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Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.
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Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
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The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.
