Thomas Sowell Quotes
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I never thought about being famous.
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I love to perform live.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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They sat for a moment, regarding one another; neither understanding. As if we were two aliens, thought Blaine. With viewpoints that did not come within a million miles of coinciding, and yet they both were men.
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Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
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'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
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I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery.
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Every day is another something that comes along.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
