Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember?Tara: Huh?Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs.Tara: Sassy eggs.
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The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.
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It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused.
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A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
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Money means better meals at better places.
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I would never win an award for not loving pizza.
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I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.
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Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
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I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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If a word means everything, then in means nothing.
