Cheaper Quotes

• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  Brendan Behan

  Summer, Beer, Winter

  "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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• Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Royal Variety Performance, 4 Nov. 1963

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• We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Rights, Age

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

  John C. Bogle

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• By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Medicine, Doctors

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• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Criticism, Together

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• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Country, Future, Men

  "White Power". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, 1967.

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• A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

  Jack Benny

  Men, Rich, Shows

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

  Douglas Horton

  Movie, Hero, Actors

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• The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Challenges

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• Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

  S.M. Stirling

  S. M. Stirling (1998). “The Domination”, p.216, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Action, Accepted

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• Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

  Marlene Dumas

  Drawing, Forever, Paper

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• The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

  Fredric Jameson

  Worry, Location, Structure

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• I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Mother, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

  Steve Buscemi

  Care, Trends, Canada

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Trying, Produce

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Sound, Doe, Way

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• Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Stories, Elements

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• There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Phones, Differences

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• People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Business, People, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

  Dean Kamen

  People, Driving, Problem

  "Inventor Dean Kamen Says Healthcare Debate 'Backward Looking'". Interview with Jim Meigs, Jerry Beilinson, www.popularmechanics.com. August 6, 2009.

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• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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