Thomas Sowell Quotes

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

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• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Great
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Race
  • Silly
  • Exist

• A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Meaning

• Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • First
  • Survival
  • Priority

• No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Why
  • Makeup

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Courage

• The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

  

  Lionel Murphy
  • Planning

• I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Fun
  • Surprise