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.

  

  J. H. Wyman
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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.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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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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• The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

  

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• My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.

  

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• For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.

  

  Lynn Jurich
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• If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.

  

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• He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.

  

  Walter Kerr
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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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