#ric

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. ↗

— Terry Southern

#credit #directors #everything #film #including

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor. ↗

— Terry Southern

#black comedy #comedy #decided #flavor #give

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

#dangerous #decisions #hands #hard #imagine

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

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

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#around #far #fewer #higher #industry

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

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. ↗

— Al Spalding

#american #any #anything #ball game #baseball

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#earthquakes #had #heard #how #i