Adam Smith Quotes
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
