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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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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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.
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The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
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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.
