Thomas Sowell Quotes

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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  • Dangerous
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• Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Done
  • Me

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
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• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Me
  • Trouble

• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Mind
  • Military
  • Dead

• I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • True
  • Want
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• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
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• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
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• Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Style
  • Serious
  • Wonder

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
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• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Help
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• I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
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  • Attention

• Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Always
  • Ability
  • Optimistic

• For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Childhood
  • Short
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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Joy
  • Envy

• There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Affects
  • Economic downturn

• I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • School
  • Never
  • English

• Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

  

  David Chase
  • People
  • Movie

• Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • People
  • Art
  • High

• One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Failure
  • Politics