Thomas Sowell Quotes
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.Thomas Sowell
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
Dana Fox -
I can't take anything seriously.
Rachel Brosnahan -
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
Lady Gaga -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Sam Phillips -
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver -
This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
Gail Sheehy -
I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
Uma Thurman -
Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
Rachel Platten
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco -
I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
Omari Hardwick -
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
Samuel Barnett -
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
Ted Olson -
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
Parker Posey -
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
Naomi Wolf -
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
Haruki Murakami -
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain -
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.
Thomas Hobbes -
Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell