Thomas Sowell Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
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Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
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Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
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Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
