Thomas Sowell Quotes
Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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He that is rich is wise.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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Nature abhors a moron.
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The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence-to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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I cut to the point. I don't mealy-mouth around about it.
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Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.
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I think great skin is always important. With lots of makeup, by the end of the night, you look like you're melting!
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
