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Thomas Sowell Quotes

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Thomas Sowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Society Problems Someone Solution Up

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Daughter Freedom Think Letting Go Go

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jesse Stone

Money People Black Seeing White

I'm afraid to do theater now.

John Corbett

Now Afraid Theater

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

John Malkovich

Truth Great World Think Doing True

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

Life Last Who Longest He Laughs

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Ann Cotton

Education Leadership Women Team Eye

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

Ann Curry

Father Best Thought You Say Used

I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.

Joseph Rykwert

I Am City Building Problem Buildings

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Diane Cilento

Own Because Different Would Odd

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Aunjanue Ellis

Grief People Loved Earth Lost Air

Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

Alice Dreger

Pressure Wonder Why System Natural

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Alice McDermott

Think Violence Want Cheap Write