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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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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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.
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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.
