Thomas Sowell Quotes
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I love acting.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I'm really funny now.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
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It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
