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 -
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 -
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell
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There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley -
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 -
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
Barton Gellman -
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Lao Tzu
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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 -
In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.
Carli Lloyd -
When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
Kawhi Leonard -
We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
Patrisse Cullors -
Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.
David MacKenzie
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I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
Anthony Hopkins -
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.
David E. Sanger -
I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.
David Charvet -
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Margaret Spellings -
I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
Bonnie Hunt -
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Thomas Sowell