Thomas Sowell Quotes

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
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• I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I've never been fired in my life.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
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• Nothing is more real than nothing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Real

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  

  Al Franken
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• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and better protocols from hospitals.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
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• In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

  

  Mary Grandpre
  • Wonder
  • Unknown

• I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Present

• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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• Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

  

  Bobby Fischer
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• I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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• The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • Heart
  • Army

• You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
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• In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Business
  • President
  • Political Agenda

• Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

  

  Ann Hasseltine Judson
  • Need
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• Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.

  

  Adam Lashinsky
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Americans

• Action makes more fortune than caution.

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Action

• Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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