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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Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
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A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
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We are necessarily within arm’s length of large questions about whether your kids on their deathbeds will be able to look back on lives oriented toward the good, the true, and the beautiful. This book is not outlining any answers to the grand questions of meaning, but we should acknowledge that adolescents and their parent-guides are inevitably wrestling with the fundamental: What makes a life worth living? From the moment human beings were able.
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There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.
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Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.
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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.
