Thomas Sowell Quotes
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.
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People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.
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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
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Conservatism: Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.
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There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
