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 hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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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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The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
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Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have the freedom to be able to try to make that funny. It's the attempt that I'm trying to defend so hard, no necessarily the execution.
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I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.
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Reality is not optional.
