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.Thomas Sowell
Quotes to Explore
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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?'
G. Willow Wilson -
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid -
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Ada Lovelace -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga -
When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
Olivia Cooke
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
Sam Brownback -
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.
Harry Browne -
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett -
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
Jackie Chan -
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.
Halle Berry -
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.
Patricia Briggs
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
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.
Mandy Patinkin -
Don't kill the golden goose.
Malcolm Mclaren -
To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
Adam Christopher -
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby -
Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?
Warren R. Austin
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn -
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
Brian Wilson -
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
Eleanor Porter -
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.
Angel Corella -
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
Thomas Sowell