Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Walter Ulbricht -
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu -
Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
Victoria Pendleton -
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
Iggy Pop -
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey -
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai -
People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
Gail Porter -
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg -
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
Gavin Newsom -
I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
Samantha Isler -
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
Rand Paul
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V. S. Naipaul -
Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
Viktor Orban -
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.
Flavor Flav -
Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
Gary Herbert
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein -
The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
Joel Osteen -
You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.
Apollonius of Tyana -
Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.
Frank Drake -
I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.
Charles Bock -
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell