#commodity

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#called #commodity #commonly #hire #instead

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#career #commodity #couples #different #how

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

#available #bar #become #beer #black

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#bottle #commodity #household #ketchup #kitchen

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity. ↗

— Carl Schmitt

#democracy #equality #nationalism #politics #racism

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#commodity #contractor #military #military

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. ↗

— James Buchan

#away #commodity #customer #deny #give

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#commodity #crude #crude oil #every #first

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#camera #certain #choose #commodity #create

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell. ↗

— Carol Kane

#commodity #i #i am #like #my own