Thomas Sowell Quotes
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Quotes to Explore
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Europe can be saved.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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Watch out for the medallions, my diamonds is reckless, feels like a midget is hangin' from my necklace.
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
