Commodity Quotes - Page 24

• The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

  Phil Cooke

  Inspirational, Attention, Century

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• Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

  Archie Shepp

  Beer, Black, Bars

  "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.

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• Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Men, Rice, Scarce

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.8, Vintage

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• You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

  Henry Hopper

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• A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

  Neil Strauss

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guy

  "Pick-up techniques - interview with Neil Strauss". Interview with Kirstin Innes, www.list.co.uk. January 31, 2008.

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• China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

  S. R. Nathan

  Moving, Chinese, World

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• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Issues, Gold

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Thinking, Knowing

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• The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Vision, Common

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• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, Simple, People

  "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Phones, Cells

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• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  Carl Menger

  Money, Independent, Power

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• Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

  Christoph Waltz

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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