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'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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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 believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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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 do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.
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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.
