Thomas Sowell Quotes
Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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My record speaks for itself.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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The best solutions are not immediate solutions.
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The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.
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I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
