Thomas Sowell Quotes

Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.

Thomas Sowell

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Appreciate

• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Time
  • End
  • Process

• 'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Trying
  • War
  • Together

• When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Find
  • First
  • Everything

• My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Years
  • Try
  • Three

• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Eyes
  • Ugly
  • Really

• To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War

• The Meatbats are a throwback band.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Band

• I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hate

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • School
  • Able
  • Office

• Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Nice
  • President