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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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.
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I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
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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.
