Thomas Sowell Quotes
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.Thomas Sowell
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
Candice Swanepoel -
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Caleb Cushing -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
Octavia E. Butler -
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
Ramez Naam -
I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
Barbara Mandrell
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Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
Gail Z. Martin -
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I'm just trying to do my job and my part to make this a team that people respect.
Blake Griffin -
For me, like somebody with finer hair, the key thing is not cutting too many bangs and really just framing my face versus doing a real fringe.
Carlson Young -
Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything - trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.
Ali Fazal -
Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.
Mauricio Macri
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I keep myself away from people who talk badly about others.
Allu Arjun -
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
Kevin Bacon -
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
Don Bluth -
Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.
Eli Broad -
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
Mario Cuomo -
I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'
Mario Cuomo
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee -
I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.
Babatunde Adebimpe -
BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
Kara Swisher -
Regardless of your support, you need to make work.
Ellen Gallagher -
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.
Thomas Sowell