Thomas Sowell Quotes
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I owe everything to France.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.
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The idea that industry is important and therefore must be run by government is one of the ugliest and least American concepts out there.
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High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
