Thomas Sowell Quotes
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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When the prophets conceived Jehovah as the special vindicator of these voiceless classes it was another way of saying that it is the chief duty in religious morality to stand for the rights of the helpless.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.
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I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
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I definitely want to go the route of feature films.
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.
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The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
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Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
