Thomas Sowell Quotes
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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I consider myself an ordinary person.
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No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.
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All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
