Thomas Sowell Quotes

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Thomas Sowell

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • College
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'

  

  Paris Jackson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • School
  • Money

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Important
  • College
  • Four

• When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Important
  • School
  • College

• I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Kids
  • College
  • Church

• When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Time
  • College

• I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Support
  • College

• The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • School
  • Courses

• I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Cameras
  • Certainly

• One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Love
  • Today
  • Run

• I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Taken

• Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Singing

• Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • School
  • College
  • Feels