Thomas Sowell Quotes
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
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A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
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Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
