Thomas Sowell Quotes

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

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• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

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• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

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• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

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• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

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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.

  

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• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

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• I know what poverty is.

  

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• 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.

  

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• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

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• In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

  

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• Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.

  

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• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

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• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  

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• All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.

  

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• If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast - and as someone said, 'If you’re going to hang me, you mustn’t expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

  

  John Corigliano
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• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  

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• I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.

  

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• I have several close friends who are insomniacs. Over the years, I've heard their stories about being up in the middle of the night, completely awake. I see them yawn at 11 A.M. and know that, regardless of what they are doing, they'd probably rather be in bed sleeping. I've always had sympathy for them, but I've never really understood it.

  

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• We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

  

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• If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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