Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles -
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
Dana Perino -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
Bear Grylls -
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth -
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith -
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
Quentin Tarantino -
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Barbara Bush -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
Tammy Duckworth -
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
Ice Cube -
My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's so many areas where you can go in and enjoy, but I just like meeting new people.
Adam Peaty -
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
Wallace Shawn
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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Jodi Picoult -
Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
Gary North -
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky -
For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.
Leroy Hood -
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
Thomas Sowell