Thomas Sowell Quotes
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
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I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.
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I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
