Thomas Sowell Quotes
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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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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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.
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Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'
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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off...
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
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People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
