Thomas Sowell Quotes
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.Thomas Sowell
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
Kate Winslet -
I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
Kate Micucci -
I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher -
I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.
Queen Latifah -
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
Samantha Power -
It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
Bonnie Blair -
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
James Stephens -
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
John C. Maxwell
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On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
Frank Zappa -
Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
Marshall McLuhan -
Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
Daniel Webster -
Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work.
Jimmy Kimmel -
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
Eric Maskin -
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.
Jonathan Raban
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The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.
Patrick White -
On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.
Virchand Gandhi -
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Thomas A. Edison -
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas Sowell