Thomas Sowell Quotes
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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Little things please little minds.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular - I admit that much - and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power.
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
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Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years old and hearing that.
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I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
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I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
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With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
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I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.
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Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.
