Thomas Sowell Quotes

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

Thomas Sowell

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• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Important
  • House
  • Space

• You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Work
  • Road
  • Name

• If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Pain
  • Better

• The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Desire
  • Unique

• I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Like
  • Same
  • Development

• Be strong to hope, O Heart!Though day is bright,The stars can only shineIn the dark night.Be strong, O Heart of mine,Look towards the light!

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Night

• I have to live my books before I write them.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Live

• I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Star
  • Dance

• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Women
  • Control
  • Question

• I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

  

  Marion Cotillard

• The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • People

• I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Family
  • Law
  • Ethics

• I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

  

  Jordana Brewster
  • Driving

• I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

  

  Diego Luna
  • People
  • Real
  • Hope

• I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Being on a low-budget film is difficult enough, and you may as well be working on something that you really believe in and you really love, and for me, that's to play different characters, to play different roles, and challenge myself.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Believe
  • Different
  • May

• Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wins
  • Ministers
  • Thinker

• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Wealth