Adam Smith Quotes
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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Christians should take a stand on six literal days, a young earth, and global flood even if it causes division. Either God means what He says, or we may as well not believe any of the Bible.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
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Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
