Thomas Sowell Quotes

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

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• Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Me
  • Difference

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Me
  • Comedy

• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Song

• I'm from Southampton.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Southampton

• I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Way
  • Ideas

• In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fear

• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Soul
  • Peace

• To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Successful
  • Sufficient

• You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • Mistake
  • Ups & Downs

• I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Business
  • Age
  • Die

• It doesn't matter how much more you have in your bank; if 50,000 people show up to your opponents' rallies and you only have a few hundred people, it says a lot about what the people of America are ready to do.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • People
  • America
  • Show

• We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

  

  Plato
  • Argument
  • Examine
  • Topic

• I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Lines
  • Pop Music
  • Blurred

• Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Growth
  • Exciting

• In keeping with our aim to start construction on the new Family Center sometime in 2006, the dress for our Building Hope dinner will be construction casual, with tool belts and hard hats optional.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Aim

• 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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