Thomas Sowell Quotes

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Thomas Sowell

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• I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

  

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

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• My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

  

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• The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

  

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• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

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• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

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• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

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• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

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• My record speaks for itself.

  

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• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

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• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

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• Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

  

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• Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

  

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• I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  

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• It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

  

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• In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.

  

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• The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

  

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• I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

  

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• The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which runs most of its cyber activities, they look at you and they see Google and Facebook - the two largest depositories of personal data in the world - and they see the reach of the National Security Agency, which has huge digital capacity to know what is going on around the world. So the Chinese would see cyber as an un-level playing field, because the U.S. holds all sorts of advantages.

  

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• We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.

  

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• Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Wonder
  • Parent
  • Chinese