Thomas Sowell Quotes

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Push
  • Self-confident

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Why
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• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Energy

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Things

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • History
  • Knowing
  • Scared

• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Worry

• Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Simple
  • Justice

• The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Different

• Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Bush is no conservative.

  

  Bill Kristol

• Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kids
  • War

• No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Learning
  • Study
  • Weather

• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Church
  • Alabama

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

  

  Bobby Charlton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Football

• Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Age
  • Opportunity