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
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

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

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• 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
  • Some
  • Popularity

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• Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.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

• 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 don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Strong
  • Sweet

• Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • World

• It's something totally unique that no baseball team has done before.

  

  Bob Larson
  • Unique
  • Baseball Team

• All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

  

  Jonathan Kellerman
  • Key
  • Locks
  • Opens

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• 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