Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.
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Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
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It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
