Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
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I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
