Thomas Sowell Quotes
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.
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Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
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My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
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I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.
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Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.
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People think religion is confined in an edifice, to be worshipped at an altar. In reality it is an attitude toward divinity which is reflected through life.
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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
