Thomas Sowell Quotes
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
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For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
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Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
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My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
