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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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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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
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The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
