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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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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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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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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Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
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Winning is a habit.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.
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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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There is no one left, none but all of us.
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
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Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way you feel, so it totally indicates the character you're going to play.
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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.
