Thomas Sowell Quotes
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.Thomas Sowell
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
Sam Abell -
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams -
You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
Patricia Heaton -
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
Harold Prince -
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra -
The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
Iman
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
Dan DeCarlo -
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman -
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
Olivia Newton-John -
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken -
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez -
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
Hall Caine -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
Yvonne Strahovski -
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Parker Palmer -
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
Irvine Welsh -
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
Peter Frampton -
If you're looking for a silver lining to a dark cloud, that would be it, ... I wasn't traded for a bag of pucks. It helps your confidence to know that you are being traded for quality hockey players. It's been interesting. I've been moved around quite a bit, always in big trades. Most times, the reasons were economic ones.
Anson Carter -
Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
Vladimir Putin -
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Thomas Sowell