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.
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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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Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
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Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
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Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
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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.
