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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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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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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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
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Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.
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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.
