Thomas Sowell Quotes
'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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I'm from Southampton.
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I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
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In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
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It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."
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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
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I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.
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You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.
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Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
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'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
