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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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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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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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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An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.
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The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
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I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.
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The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
