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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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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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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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
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It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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A Composition on the Piano
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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.
