Thomas Sowell Quotes
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.
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At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
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In the chilly hours and minutes Of uncertainty I want to be In the warm hold of your lovin' mind. To feel you all around me And to take your hand Along the sand, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.
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If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
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I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.
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What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.
