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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.
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If a word means everything, then in means nothing.
