Thomas Sowell Quotes
Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.
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Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
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Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.
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I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.
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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
