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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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 was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.
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Reality is not optional.
