Thomas Sowell Quotes

There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

Thomas Sowell

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• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• Death, only, renders hope futile.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Futile

• I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

  

  Edith Head
  • Friend
  • Star
  • Grace Kelly

• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Will

• Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Emotional

• Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Hurt

• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

  Ellen G. White

• 'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

  

  Jeremy Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Night

• When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

  

  Ben Falcone
  • Pretty

• I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Life

• I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

  

  Amy Jo Martin
  • Work

• The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.

  

  Jeff Cooper
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Kind
  • Suffering
  • Trade

• There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Existence
  • Ways

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Song
  • Ability

• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Struggle
  • Talent
  • Ability