Jim Moran Quotes
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
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I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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A fusty nut with no kernel.
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Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
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It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
