Adam Smith Quotes

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

Jim Sturgess

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I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

Melissa Sue Anderson

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I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

Jean Dujardin

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I've never been paid by or colluded with any Russian to hack the D.N.C., to create search-engine optimization tools to cause Trump's positives up and Hillary's negatives up. I've never been to Prague.

Michael Cohen

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Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Steven Levitan

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Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

Steven Van Zandt

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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Stewart Udall

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I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

Rufus Wainwright

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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Jon Taffer

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I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.

Dominique Moceanu

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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

Claire Foy

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