Adam Smith Quotes

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790

Topics

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I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

Jerry Orbach

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I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

John Banville

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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

Metro Boomin

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I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

Subhash Chandra

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When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

Sia

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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

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In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

Doc Hastings

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It was 1976, and I was acting off-Broadway with a pair of Canadians: Victor Garber and Gale Garnett. The play was called 'Cracks,' and Martin Sherman, the man who wrote it, went on a few years later to have a giant hit with 'Bent.' But not this time around. Opening night was a disaster.

Christopher Lloyd

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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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