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.
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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
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
Samantha Power
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When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
Barkhad Abdi
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
Rachael Taylor
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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
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
Lance Armstrong
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
Carlene Carter
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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
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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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
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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
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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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
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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
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There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
Marie Helvin
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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
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Actors are inherently self-centered.
Bryan Cranston
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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
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You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
Jeff Foxworthy
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I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.
Steven Soderbergh
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When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.
Bear McCreary
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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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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