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• The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Differences, Acting, Actors

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• I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

  Christine Baranski

  Culture, I'm Sad, Stardom

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Book, Communication, Should Have

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• Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Mean, Soul, Gold

  Christopher Columbus, Richard Henry Major (1870). “Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World”, p.203

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• In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

  Angela Carter

  Taken, World, Force

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

  Wilbur Ross

  Ships, Strange, Kind

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Drug, Pills, Body

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• I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

  El Anatsui

  New York, Sky, Cities

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• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  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.

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• Attention is a precious commodity.

  Brian Solis

  Attention

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.143, John Wiley & Sons

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• Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

  Julio Frenk

  Care, Privilege, Humans

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• To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.

  Aliko Dangote

  Succeed, Advantage, Trading

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• A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.

  Michael Rapaport

  Beautiful, Girl, Morning

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• Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Oil, Important

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• The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

  John Stuart Mill

  Demand, Labor

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• If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

  Donald Trump

  Business, Branding, Brands

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• No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Increase, Mass

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.72

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

  Samuel

  Men, Pigs, Iron

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• Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

  Ajahn Brahm

  Inspiration, Valuable

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• The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

  Mark Zandi

  Japan, Financial, Economy

  "Mark Zandi: No Global Impact From Japan". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies

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• Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Time, World, Care

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• The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Reality, People, Fantasy

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  Pat Benatar

  People, Singing

  "Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Leader, Authenticity

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