Thomas Sowell Quotes
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.Thomas Sowell
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest -
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Lars von Trier -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
Nargis Fakhri -
I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
Vicki Lawrence -
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
Dakota Goyo -
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
F. Sionil Jose -
I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
Gail Carriger -
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling -
It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
Jack Straw
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
A. N. Wilson -
I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.
T.J. Dillashaw -
So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
Lurlene McDaniel -
Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
Faina Ranevskaya -
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
Michel Foucault -
You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.
Mitchell Joachim
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
Wally Schirra -
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Omar Epps -
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
Thomas Sowell