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 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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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 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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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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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.
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I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.
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I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.
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Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.
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Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
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To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.
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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.
