Thomas Sowell Quotes
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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Music that is in the charts today is quite dreadful. I find it a great honour that I have never been considered for awards, such as NME etc. It is a personal victory. All awards shows should be banned!
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
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I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.
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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
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A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
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I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
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For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
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My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
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Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
