Thomas Sowell Quotes

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Thomas Sowell

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

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• I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
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• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
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  • Data

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
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• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
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• Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.

  

  Gabriel Medina
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• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
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• I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.

  

  Laurent Baheux
  • People
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• I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
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• The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
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• You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Growing

• I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Family
  • Slavery
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• No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Growing
  • Politics
  • Class