Thomas Sowell Quotes
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
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All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
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Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
