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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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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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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We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.
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At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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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.
