Clarence Thomas Quotes
I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
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Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
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I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
