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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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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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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'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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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.
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Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
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I travel with Club Glove.
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Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"
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Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.
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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.
