Thomas Sowell Quotes

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

Thomas Sowell

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There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Jim Lehrer

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I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

Jeremy Clarkson

TimePeopleThinkLongLong Time

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

Robert Goulet

BestWatchSomeThoseEverFights

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Angela Ahrendts

WorkHomeTodayGreatWomanPeople

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Mason Cooley

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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Lucinda Williams

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YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

Jason Blum

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Where would Monsanto be without the U.S. farm program and world-class research labs?

Dick Durbin

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Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

Boris Yeltsin

StormFightPeopleMeYouHouse

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

LiveLawYouOutsideHonestMust

After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.'

Pramila Jayapal

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I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Rick Riordan

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