Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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'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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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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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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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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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 can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it's a privilege, so you definitely don't knock it because you never know where you may end up.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
