Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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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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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.
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There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
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I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.
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If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
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I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
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I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
