Adam Smith Quotes
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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If I fall, I'll take the fall and get up and keep going.
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“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
