Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
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I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.
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It felt like a faraway place that was still home,
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A lot of people say I can't do it because I'm blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don't set boundaries and go for it.
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The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
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Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
