Thomas Sowell Quotes
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
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Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.
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I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.
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[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling.
