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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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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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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I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you have to be the ages of this and this.
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I am moved by fancies that are curledAround these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.
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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
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As soon as I was obedient to just taking a chance on God, all of these things that you're seeing - 'Black Panther' or 'Humans' or 'The Commuter' or Steven Spielberg - it came right after I took that break.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
