Thomas Sowell Quotes
I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
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I enjoy money.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
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When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
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I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
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Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
