Thomas Sowell Quotes
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.Thomas Sowell
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman -
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal -
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
T. Boone Pickens -
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de Stael -
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
Oleg Cassini -
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
Walter Cronkite
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole -
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
Viggo Mortensen -
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
Zach Braff -
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Garth Hudson -
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
Lara St. John -
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
Jack Prelutsky
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott -
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
Zadie Smith -
Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
Dan Aykroyd -
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.
Evgeny Morozov -
Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
Anita Sarkeesian
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis -
Learn the changes, then forget them.
Charlie Parker -
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.
Thomas Sowell