Thomas Sowell Quotes
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds (I)
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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
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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 am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.
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Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.
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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
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No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.
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Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
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I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
