Thomas Sowell Quotes
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.Thomas Sowell
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom -
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
H. R. McMaster -
A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
Irina Shayk -
I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady Gaga
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
Randy Pausch -
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
Pablo Sandoval -
I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
Patrick Whitesell -
It's great living with your best friends.
Cameron Dallas -
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
Yolanda Adams -
I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
Taylor Sheridan
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer -
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
Nathaniel Rich -
I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
Eddie Trunk -
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
Gabrielle Union
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Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.
Dale Carnegie -
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
Frank Stella -
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.
Stephen Covey -
Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.
Russell M. Nelson -
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.
Thomas Sowell