Adam Smith Quotes

A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Crazy

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Crazy
  • Flying
  • Week

• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Good
  • Help
  • Crazy

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Too

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Crazy

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • I Can

• It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Crazy

• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Crazy

• Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Done
  • Space
  • Crazy

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I believe in a 'give us this day our daily bread' sort of thing. And what I draw from that is, I try not to stock my refrigerator for groceries for the week, cause I might not live to see the full week.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Daily

• True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Means
  • Generosity
  • Ingratitude

• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I really like to take the time to build things slowly and surely - to get more grounded. But it never felt for certain, like, "One day people will listen to me!" It was more like, "Perhaps I've got something to say." So it feels fantastic. It's good to take the time to think, to find, to search.

  

  Haider Ackermann
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Question
  • Presidents
  • Assassins

• A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...

  

  Adam Smith
  • Crazy
  • Stock