Thomas Sowell Quotes
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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Life is God's art.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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I grew up around guitar players.
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I'm not interested in celebrities, with their free dresses. I'm interested in clothes.
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It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.
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The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
