Thomas Sowell Quotes
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.
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These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.
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Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
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Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
