Thomas Sowell Quotes

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell

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PeopleStupidDecisionsHandsWrong

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Jeffrey Toobin

InterestingYouNewsKnowImportant

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

EducationGoodHappinessName

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Michael B. Jordan

LoveSportsBaseballGrowing UpUp

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Meshell Ndegeocello

LoveFatherMusicEyesTimeMe

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Stephen Covey

PotentialYouBeyondAnythingEver

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Roseanne Barr

PowerMoneyPizzaWinningYouJust

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

Mike Pompeo

FailureGovernmentEnergyWinners

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

ChangeGoodLiveManCreativeEvil

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

TechnologyConnectionLookKnowKind

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Chuck Palahniuk

GodPetDownToiletJustMaybe

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Brett Ratner

LoveHeroCultureThinkGuitarPop

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

Peter Bergen

I AmMediaCreationHimBigDeal

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