Thomas Sowell Quotes
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Quotes to Explore
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it.
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Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.
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I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
