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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The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
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Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …
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Relations between India and China have been founded on solid understanding of the affinities of the cultures and the civilizations of the two countries, and the imperatives of peaceful co-existence and close co-operation between them in the post-cold war world. I believe that India-China friendship and co-operation could be a shining example of concord and harmonious relations between two ancient civilizations and the foundation for a just, stable and peaceful world order.
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It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.
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People who think they have the full support of God, any god, think they're invincible. They will do anything and not even think twice about it.
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People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
