“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.” PeopleWantActingResponsibilityTrainingValuableCommodityMarineMarine CorpsBest Acting Author:Adam Driver
“What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.” MenWorldHumansCultureCausesCommonConditionsConversionAliensClosestCommodityComponentsMachineryClosenessMirages Author:Theodor Adorno
“In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.” PeopleEconomyMonthsSixOilBubblesCommoditySix MonthsHousingCentral BanksCuckoosHousing Bubble Author:Marc Faber
“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.” IfsI CanPlayMightAbleGuyFightingLeftAbilitySixLeagueGuaranteesHockeyCommodityUnbelievable Author:Brett Hull
“I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.” My OwnSellsCommodity Author:Carol Kane