Thomas Sowell Quotes
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.Thomas Sowell
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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 -
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
Jack Henry Abbott -
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 -
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence -
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell -
There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
Barton Gellman -
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 -
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
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 -
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
Maira Kalman
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Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number.
Lynn Margulis -
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
Matthew Perry -
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
T. S. Eliot -
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
Ralph Bakshi -
My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.
Ram Charan -
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Thomas Sowell