Thomas Sowell Quotes
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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Really, what I'm always drawn to is the voice - PJ Harvey , Björk . If the voice interests me, then I'm interested to listen to what's happening.
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Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.
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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
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My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.
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There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.