Millicent Fawcett Quotes
A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.Millicent Fawcett
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
Karen Duffy -
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
Ira Glass -
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Karen Abbott -
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
Patrick Stewart -
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
Ednita Nazario
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Narada Michael Walden -
What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
Lara Stone -
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells -
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn -
It's my policy not to review funerals.
A.M. Homes
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Congress had made clear that it has affirmed the principle of keeping banking and commerce separate. This loophole ... circumvents that principle. If Congress wants to revisit banking and commerce, that's their prerogative but it doesn't seem a good approach to allow a loophole in which that distinction breaks down.
Ben Bernanke -
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
W. S. Gilbert -
Probably would have been sitting on the bench with Connecticut. Who knows? That's just hypothetical stuff you can't even project. But it certainly is a talented team. The growth that he has had here, I think, has been a beneficial factor for him in his overall game.
Phil Jackson -
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
Viola Davis -
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Tamra Davis -
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
Thomas Sowell
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Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Alvar Aalto -
I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.
Millicent Fawcett