Thomas Sowell Quotes

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

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• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

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• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

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• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

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• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

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• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

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• At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

  

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• The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

  

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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

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• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

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• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

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• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

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• There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

  

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• I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

  

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• 'Rosemary's Baby' is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I'm actually going to work on a movie in February, called 'Mercy,' from Jason Blum, who produced the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, and there is a similar theme to 'Rosemary's Baby' in the movie.

  

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• We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

  

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• After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

  

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• Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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