Thomas Sowell Quotes
It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
Quotes to Explore
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
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It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
