Adam Smith Quotes
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.Adam Smith
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis -
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky -
I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q -
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson -
Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
Hansjorg Wyss
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Ira Sachs -
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
Maajid Nawaz -
I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
Gavin MacLeod -
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
Victoria Justice -
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin MacLeod
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
Nancy Gibbs -
I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
Carli Lloyd -
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama -
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Lee Krasner -
There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.
David Harewood -
My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
Jeff Bridges
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As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
Pranab Mukherjee -
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
Elliot Cowan -
I sing with all my heart and when I see the audience feel it too, I feel so touched I get goosebumps…To my fans, I would like to say, 'I will work harder', rather than to say, 'I love you' because I believe that sincerity has its way of getting across to touch hearts.
Dong Young-bae Big Bang -
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
Adam Smith