Thomas Sowell Quotes

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

Thomas Sowell

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• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
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• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Long
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• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
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• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
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• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Good
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• Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
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• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Childhood
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  • Oil

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• Mere abuse is no criticism.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Criticism
  • Abuse

• The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: 'No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
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• All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Men

• Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?

  

  Lawyer
  • People
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• BecauseHe is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter-Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Judge

• This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
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• I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Writing

• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • World
  • Business

• Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Party

• I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.

  

  John Dryden
  • Soul
  • Rest
  • Heaven

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
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• Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Fashion

• Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Men
  • Military
  • Careers