Thomas Sowell Quotes

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

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• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Suffering

• I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure. I came home and I asked my husband, I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Friendship

• I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Important
  • Women
  • True

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men
  • Death

• The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Professional
  • Fly
  • Athlete

• Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Communication

• I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.

  

  Laurence Fishburne

• Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Time
  • Age
  • Son

• There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Song
  • Some
  • Cover

• It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fans
  • Rights

• Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Real
  • America
  • Sometimes

• A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Designer

• Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• The worst thing was having to go to school on days "Mensch, Pia!" would be on TV in the evening. My classmates made fun of me.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • School
  • Fun
  • TV

• Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Smart