#ted

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #been #believe #change #committed

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#away #been #characters #four #getting

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#anything #family #focus #great #had

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could

I never dated much in high school or college. ↗

— David Spade

#dated #high #high school #i #much

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. ↗

— David Spade

#being #being smart #friends #grade #grade school

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks. ↗

— David Spade

#bucks #country #fly #gig #hundred