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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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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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
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I'm not a robot.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
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You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.
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People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
