Adam Smith Quotes
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.Adam Smith
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
Dan Lipinski -
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
Gary Lineker
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
Laura Leighton -
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
Samuel Barber -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Owen Wilson -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath -
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
Nas -
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue -
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
Patricia Richardson -
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
Gary Paulsen -
In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
Vendela Kirsebom
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The guest to me was always paramount.
Larry King -
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
Jeremy Hardy -
People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.
Bruce Wilkinson -
I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
Andra Day -
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Adam Smith