Thomas Sowell Quotes
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.
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To be dull is easy,
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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I’m more than just what you see on YouTube.
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Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.
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It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
