Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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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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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
