Thomas Sowell Quotes
Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
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The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.
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You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
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Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
