Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams… — Larry Dixon Copy Share Image
The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
“Who is sitting on a commodity without recognizing its complete potential? How do technological developments or political events such as wars affect… — Daniel Ammann Copy Share Image
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience… — Brooke Adams Copy Share Image
I personally make sure that some of my investments are in foreign securities or in international commodity portfolios that are independent of… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
