Thomas Sowell Quotes
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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I love bayou life.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
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Taste goodness before you recommend it.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
