Thomas Sowell Quotes

Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

Thomas Sowell

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• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Popularity
  • Some

• England was merry England, whenOld Christmas brought his sports again.‘Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale;‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man’s heart through half the year.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • Sports
  • Christmas

• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Beautiful
  • Light
  • Opinion

• Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Culture
  • Cool

• Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Important
  • Eyes

• There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Women
  • Children

• When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Up

• Actors are inherently self-centered.

  

  Bryan Cranston

• I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show that preceded 'Doctor Who.' 'Doctor Who' borrowed quite a bit from 'Quatermass' and probably wouldn't have existed in anything like the form we recognise today if 'Quatermass' hadn't come before it.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Great
  • Today

• I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Good

• I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

  

  David Morse
  • People
  • Good

• I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Music
  • Different
  • Age

• Most importantly, a leader proves himself by demonstrating his concern for and relationship with the people under him. The old adage: “Take care of your people and they will take care of you.

  

  Hal Moore
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Leader

• The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Freedom
  • Created
  • Restrain

• So how can you lose what you've never owned?

  

  Lew Brown

• A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.

  

  Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
  • Girl
  • Marriage

• Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

  

  Thomas Sowell