Thomas Sowell Quotes
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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Matt Ryan does a great job of throwing the ball. No quarterback within the 20 to 25 yard range is throwing the ball any better than Matt Ryan.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
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We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.
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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
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The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
