Thomas Sowell Quotes
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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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 the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
