Thomas Sowell Quotes

It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

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• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
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  • Toy
  • Youngest

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• I'm not a sun person.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Person
  • Sun

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
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• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
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  • Toy

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
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  • Look
  • Appearance

• I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Ideas

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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• I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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  • Better

• Watch out for the medallions, my diamonds is reckless, feels like a midget is hangin' from my necklace.

  

  Ludacris

• We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.

  

  Alfred Noyes
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  • Sea

• I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
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• The purpose creates the machine.

  

  Arthur Young
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• A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People

• I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Eyes
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Value

• I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
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• When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should work.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Work
  • Science

• To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Wonder

• It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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