Thomas Sowell Quotes

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Thomas Sowell

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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

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• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

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• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  

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• Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

  

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• The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

  

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• So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

  

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• I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

  

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• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

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• I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

  

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• Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

  

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• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

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• I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

  

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• With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

  

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• I'm really cocky. Or - I've been thinking about this word a lot - I'm 'mischievous,' and I want to make light of things and push the boundaries.

  

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• I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

  

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• I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

  

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• It's like seeing a $3,000 racehorse running against a $1-million horse. You always think the million-dollar horse is going to win, right? That's baseball.

  

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• I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.

  

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• The number of female-lead action films is definitely growing, which is great.

  

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• The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Feelings