Thomas Sowell Quotes
What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
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I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
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Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
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You don't have shit to say now, do you?
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
