Thomas Sowell Quotes

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

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The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

Joe Dante

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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

John Ratzenberger

CharacterSomeoneCliffUpStarted

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Sue Monk Kidd

MusicGodSoulIdeasBusySelf

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

Tony Abbott

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'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.

Chris Crawford

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I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

Christopher Guest

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If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

Bobby Orr

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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

TryAlwaysSpecialistUniversalist

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Paul Tudor Jones

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In the end, the work shows if you're good.

Scott Caan

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I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

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