Thomas Sowell Quotes
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'
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Coal is a portable climate.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
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I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.
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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
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I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
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Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.
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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
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The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.
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The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
