Arthur C. Brooks Quotes
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.
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I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.
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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
