Commodity Quotes - Page 23

• The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Lying, Views, Stories

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• Time is a perishable commodity.

  David Hume

  Time Management, Management

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• Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

  Edward Kennedy

  Reality, Priorities, Care

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• Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Making Money, Equity, Dues

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• I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Good Life, Mind, Given

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  Adam Driver

  Responsibility, Marine, People

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• The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Kids, Today

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• Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

  Dave Hickey

  Beautiful, Art, Seductive

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

  Seth Godin

  Competence, Scarce

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• Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

  Thomas Brooks

  Pain, Jewels, Forever

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.30

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• How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heaven, Want, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory.   Remember, time is irreplaceable.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inventory, Remember, Stolen

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• The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.471

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Vicious, Particular

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

  Adrien Brody

  Integrity, Hard Work, Successful

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

  Brett Hull

  Fighting, Hockey, Play

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• I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

  Carol Kane

  My Own, Sells

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• The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  Michael Parenti

  Nature, Money, Army

  "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.

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• Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Ink, Paper

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• The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Business, Ideas

  Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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• To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Want, Firsts

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• gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

  P. D. James

  Giving, Gossip, Marketplace

  P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.292, Vintage

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• Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

  David Dreman

  Investment, Crucial

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

  Marc Rich

  Giving, Important, Information

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