Adam Smith Quotes
The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.Adam Smith
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
Jacob Batalon -
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula -
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman -
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes -
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt -
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce -
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
Gary Ross -
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach -
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
Dan Jenkins
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
Patricia Riggen -
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
Padma Lakshmi -
A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
Vicky Hartzler -
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Parker Palmer -
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
Nadia Giosia
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson -
Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
Bas Rutten -
Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
Margaret Thatcher -
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde -
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
Brian Tracy -
The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.
Adam Smith