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  • If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.

    Love   Wall   Keys  
    Carl Levin's opening statement before U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Wall Street Bank Involvement With Physical Commodities at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.hsgac.senate.gov. November 20, 2014.
  • I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.

    Thinking   Voice   People  
  • The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

  • Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  • I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

    Thinking   Agency   Wish  
    "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.
  • In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these wonderful species. They are not commodities. We need the whole world to join hands in getting this message now, particularly countries in Asia and certain communities that have not been educated about this. They have not had the campaigns that we had.

    Country   Hands   Ivory  
    "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  • I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

    Dog   Hot   Commodity  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

    Kids   Self   Long  
  • Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

    "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.
  • For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

    Men   Roles   World  
    Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books
  • Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot think clearly, nor act morally or altruistically, nor experience love and hatred, or kindness and terror, in the same way that we can.

  • To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

    Unique   Men   Names  
  • The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.

    Men   Luxury   People  
    David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.387
  • Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

    "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.
  • Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

    William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

    People   Together   May  
    "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)". Book by Jurgen Habermas translated by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence, 1989.
  • Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

    Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.76, Vintage
  • What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

  • The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

    Home   People   Soul  
    Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.11, Routledge
  • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

    Practice   Fabric   Dozen  
    "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.
  • Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

    Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
  • The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

    Sports   Sexy   Running  
  • What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.

    Art   Two   Essentials  
  • 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.

    Happiness   Want   Firsts  
  • We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

    "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up" by Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 09, 2011.
  • You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  • The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

    Zero   Pieces   Paper  
  • Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”
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