Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
Thomas Sowell
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
Callie Khouri
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
Zach McGowan
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
Ira Glass
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
Wallace Shawn
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
Ted Cruz
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Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.
Charlie Chaplin
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I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
Charlie Trotter
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One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.
Lynn Coady
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
Freeman Dyson
