Thomas Sowell Quotes

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Thomas Sowell

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SpeakFactsCompetingAgainstMere

Although we don't know what is outside our universe, astronomers still wonder. Several pictures of what there might be have been dreamed up. An interesting one, called multiverse, has lots of universes. Picture it as a foam of bubbles. Our universe would be one bubble, and we'd be surrounded by lots of other bubbles.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

UniversePictureInterestingPictures

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.

Stipe Miocic

FightYouGoTrySameGet

I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family to everything, even little kids. So I always ask the kids, 'Who wants to be the first Latino President?' It used to be no hands went up, or maybe one or two. Now, with Obama, many of the little hands go up. It will happen in my lifetime.

Jorge Ramos

FamilyHandsYouGoKnowNow

I believe no chef becomes what he becomes without having many people influence him.

Jose Andres

PeopleChefInfluenceBelieveHim

I don't wish to curse anyone. I just feel bad when women, especially, try to sabotage the image of another woman.

Divyanka Tripathi

WomenWomanFeelWishBadImage

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Brett Ratner

WorkYouDirectorKinda

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Bob Shaw

UniverseWonderWonderfulOnly

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

Wolfgang Ketterle

ChallengeBicycleLongPersonalOwn

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

Poo Bear

JobPeopleWriteBeingJustSongs

I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.

Sun Yang

MyselfFocusSwimmingThinkProblem

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.

Pete du Pont

WhyFrameBigChangedOurReference

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Sean Penn

MedicineAmericanInnocentProveMay

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