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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• 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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• I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

  

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• A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

  

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• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

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• Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

  

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• Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

  

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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.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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