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 hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.
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You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.
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My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
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Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.
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I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
