Thomas Sowell Quotes
Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
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Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.
