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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I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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In his thoughtful essay about Taniyama, Shimura made this striking comment: Though he was by no means a sloppy type, he was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.
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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
