Thomas Sowell Quotes

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

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• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Street

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • More
  • Material

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Running
  • Day
  • Hand

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Together
  • Control
  • Government

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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  • Bird

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Changes
  • Opportunities

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Up
  • Different
  • Aesthetic

• The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Different
  • War
  • History

• 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'

  

  Ian Fleming

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• We said, as we were developing 'Iron Man 1,' and working on these films, that our characters need to be as interesting out of their costumes as they are inside their costumes, fighting and flying around.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Interesting
  • Fighting
  • Flying

• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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