Adam Smith Quotes
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.
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I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.
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I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
