Thomas Sowell Quotes
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
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For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
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I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.
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I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.
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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
