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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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 are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.
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When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.
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Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
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I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.
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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.
