Thomas Sowell Quotes
Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
Quotes to Explore
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I'm an emotional person.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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They really capitalize on the fact that we are the first (in the nation primary). It is ridiculous.
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Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
