Adam Smith Quotes
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
