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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
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We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.
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We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
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Probably she should not have gotten away with it for as long as she had...but sometime, he had often thought, the retribution will come: reality denied comes back to haunt.
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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.
