Thomas Sowell Quotes
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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I always liked spy stories.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
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When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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I'm always late.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
