Thomas Sowell Quotes
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I love In-N-Out!
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On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
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Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
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I think fake boobs have done great things for real boobs. I think people finally appreciate real boobs. People like real boobs. I do. I also enjoy the fact that they are life-nourishers.
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The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of 'optimism training' is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
