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Thomas Sowell Quotes

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Thomas Sowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1930

Topics

Think Thinking Problem Feeling Know

You can't give up on your dreams.

Anderson Silva

Dreams Your Dreams You Up Give Your

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Megan Fox

Live Karma Back Want Try Real

I stayed in Miami and New York until I was about nine, and then we moved to India and stayed there for about four years and eventually moved to Berlin. It was definitely a cultural experience in its fullest, and I absorbed a lot. I don't regret any of it.

Amber Mark

Experience New York Regret Miami New

I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.

America Ferrera

Miss Braces Going Much Wearing Very

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

Steven Adler

Love Time Fight Long Lawyers Alive

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Sitting Bull

Man Free White Now Poor Footsteps

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

Monica Bellucci

People Reach America Mad Go Young

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

Mitch Glazer

Writing End You Want Movies Way

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Jonathan Ames

Life Fear Moment Hate Feel More

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Diane Lane

Beauty Power Woman Youth Always

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Dennis Weaver

Gift Universe Earth Want Nothing

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

Donna Tartt

Time Together Process Spark Long