Thomas Sowell Quotes
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.Thomas Sowell
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
Barbara Demick -
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker -
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler -
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Camille Paglia -
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
J. B. Smoove -
Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
Candis Cayne -
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Jack Steinberger -
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
Ted Cruz -
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
J. J. Watt -
Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
Aaron Douglas -
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
Karl Pilkington -
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
Kate Bush -
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
Mallory Jansen -
I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.
Daniel Cormier -
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Jack Vance
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.
David Chang -
It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.
Jalal Talabani -
I don't aim to offend.
Billy Connolly -
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Thomas Sowell