Thomas Sowell Quotes
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I still have a young attitude.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.
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Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.
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Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
