Thomas Sowell Quotes
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Quotes to Explore
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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Brazil is on my side.
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I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
