Thomas Sowell Quotes

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

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• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Value
  • Religion
  • Islam

• In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • American
  • Parents

• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Power
  • Want

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Hair

• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Reading

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Cool
  • Whole
  • Got

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Muslims
  • Shocked

• For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Mean
  • Security
  • Realize

• Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Facts
  • Relevance