Thomas Sowell Quotes
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
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It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
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I'm in the communications business.
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Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.
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The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
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I have such a great relationship with my mom that I'm so excited to, hopefully, have that same relationship with my daughter.
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I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
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There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.
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I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.
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Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.
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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
