Thomas Sowell Quotes

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

Thomas Sowell

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Man
  • Decision
  • Find

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Color

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Equal
  • Championship

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Persons

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• 'Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Destiny

• When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Political
  • Opportunity

• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Opportunity

• I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Music
  • Running
  • Ideas

• There's a new slimming course just out where they remove all your bones. Not only do you weigh less, but you also look so much more relaxed.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Looks
  • Humor

• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reached
  • Fox
  • Grapes

• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Opportunity
  • Decision
  • Individual