Thomas Sowell Quotes
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.Thomas Sowell
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
Sam Kean -
With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
Taraji P. Henson -
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
Fareed Zakaria -
Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson -
I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
Samuel Barnett -
I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
Larry Harvey -
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
Kate Bernheimer -
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
Ted Nelson
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
James Brown -
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
William Feather -
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
I go back so far I'm in front of me.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
J. I. Packer -
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
Thomas Sowell