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.Thomas Sowell
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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.
Sam Worthington -
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.
Beck -
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
Sami Gayle -
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
James Earl Jones -
I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.
Peter Berg -
No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
Bobbi Kristina Brown
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
Paul Watson -
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.
James Surowiecki -
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins -
Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
Elliott Yamin -
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.
Christopher Plummer -
Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
Jim Rogers
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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.
John McLaughlin -
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.
Gaston Bachelard -
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.
Flannery O'Connor -
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.
Gabrielle Roy -
Football coaches don't have real problems.
Lou Holtz -
Rosemary Clooney took all of us on the road. We were the first American idols.
Tony Bennett
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In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'
Conan O'Brien -
I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
Natasha Trethewey -
No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
Thomas Sowell