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• We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

  Conn Smythe

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

  Sheridan Smith

  Shoes, Needs, Louboutins

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• Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

  Bill Watterson

  Buying In, Rewards, Matter

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Airplane

  Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch, 1981.

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• Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

  Tim Federle

  Fun, Firsts, Supplies

  Tim Federle (2015). “Five, Six, Seven, Nate!”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Two, Filters

  "Afternoon Session - 1997 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 5, 1997.

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• I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

  Steve Stoute

  Young Entrepreneurs, Leader, Competition

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• One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Moving, Two, Vices

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• There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Men, Thrill

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Pants, Fame

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• Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Struggle, Impact, People

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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• After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

  Robert Breault

  Nice, Skeletons, Years

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• Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, Knives

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• Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

  Ted Allen

  Gambling, Casinos, Cocktails

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• Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

  George Mikes

  Preparation, Firsts, Aids

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• In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

  Peter Lynch

  Summer, Three, Four

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• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

  Susan Faludi

  Shopping, Clothes, Car

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.

  Don McLean

  Sadness, Men, Heartache

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• I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

  Wendy Cope

  Clothes, Allowance, Taxes

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• Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

  Pat Benatar

  Records, Things Change, Knows

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Nursing, Shoes, Paris

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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