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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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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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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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
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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.
