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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

  Entrevista con Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. 7 de junio de 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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• El oro es la más preciosa de todas las mercancías; el oro constituye un tesoro, y quien lo posee tiene todo lo que necesita en el mundo, así como el medio de rescatar a las almas del purgatorio y devolverlas al disfrute del paraíso.

  Cristóbal Colón

  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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• Vengo de un lugar donde hay mucho cielo. Pero [en New York] tienes que mirar hacia arriba para darte cuenta de que al final hay cielo, en alguna parte. ...El cielo no es un bien común.

  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

  Atención

  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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• Una chica guapa puede marearte, como si hubieras estado bebiendo Jack con Coca-Cola toda la mañana. Puede hacer que te sientas colocado, lleno del mayor bien conocido por el hombre: la promesa. Promesa de un día mejor. La promesa de una esperanza mayor. La promesa de un nuevo mañana. Esta aura particular se puede encontrar en el andar de una chica guapa. En su sonrisa, en su alma, en la forma en que hace que todo lo podrido de la vida parezca que va a salir bien.

  Michael Rapaport

  Hermosa, Chica, Mañana

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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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• La demanda de materias primas no es la demanda de mano de obra.

  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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• Ninguna extensión del comercio exterior aumentará inmediatamente la cantidad de valor en un país, aunque contribuirá muy poderosamente a aumentar la masa de mercancías y, por tanto, la suma de goces.

  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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• La paz es el bien más preciado. Y es gratis.

  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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• Es una anomalía que la información, lo más necesario para nuestra supervivencia como elegidores de nuestro propio camino, sea una mercancía sujeta a las mismas reglas de comercialización que el chicle.

  A. J. Liebling

  Conocimiento, supervivencia, anomalías

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• El tiempo es amor, por encima de todo. Es el bien más preciado del mundo y debe prodigarse a quienes más queremos.

  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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