Thomas Sowell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
