Thomas Sowell Quotes
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
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My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.
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So I will find my fears and face themor I will cower like a dogI will kick and scream or kneel and pleadI'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
