Thomas Sowell Quotes
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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Who are you?" because even now, she couldn't let her questions go. "What are you?" That face that wasn't a face smiled. It was the most terrible thing she'd ever see, ever. "Magnus" he said. "I'm the end.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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I don't say that the Milwaukee Brewers are nothing, but I think the offense of the Cincinnati Reds (is) better. There's no making mistakes when pitching against Cincinnati. When you make a mistake against them, you pay for it. When you make a mistake against Milwaukee, sometimes they miss it and that's good.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
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More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
