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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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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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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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
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The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
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The most important thing is to understand that this career is not about speed. It's about stamina. This is a marathon. It's not a 50-meter sprint. You have to persevere and understand it takes a lot of time. You have to know you're going to knock on 100 doors and 99 of them are going to close in your face.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
