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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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.
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Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.
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There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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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.
