Thomas Sowell Quotes
After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
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Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
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I think 'Miracle's Boys' made more people aware of my work.
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I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.'
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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
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I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.
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A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
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... secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.
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After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.
