Thomas Sowell Quotes

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Thomas Sowell

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mom

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Player

• It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Film
  • Picture

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hate

• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Style
  • Boy
  • Gay

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good People

• Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Live
  • Done
  • Game

• Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Ignore

• I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Up
  • God
  • Father

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • I Love
  • Cleveland

• When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Equal
  • Discrimination