Thomas Sowell Quotes
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
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I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
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What's to gain by silence?
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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I don't think I can be too hard on myself.
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Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.
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I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.
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No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
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I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
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Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
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Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.
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There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
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Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.
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What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.
