Thomas Sowell Quotes

The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I'm very excited to have a girl.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  

  Lane Kirkland
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• At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

  

  Tabitha Soren
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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
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• There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

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• This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  

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• I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

  

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• I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.

  

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• Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

  

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• In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

  

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• People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

  

  Jane Seymour
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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
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• I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

  

  Carrot Top
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• The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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