Thomas Sowell Quotes
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
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I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
