Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
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Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. - We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
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I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
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Reality is not optional.
