Thomas Sowell Quotes

The way the welfare programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Thomas Sowell

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• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Patience
  • Grow
  • Beard

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Matter
  • Realize
  • Apply

• We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Want
  • You
  • Content

• I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • Always
  • See

• The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

  

  Lauren Tarshis
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Advice

• One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Military

• I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Great
  • School
  • Brother

• When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

  

  Alexis Arguello

• I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Past
  • Color

• It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

  

  David Letterman
  • Thanksgiving

• Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Why
  • Wish
  • Rose

• Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Work
  • Head
  • Hype

• Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

  

  Winnie Ewing
  • Want
  • Scotland

• As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Song
  • Hate

• Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

  

  Meir Kahane

• No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Hell
  • Thinks

• The way the welfare programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

  

  Thomas Sowell