Cheaper Quotes - Page 9

• Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

  Peter Ustinov

  Humanity, Age, Battle

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

  George Orwell

  War, Eye, Beer

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• Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

  Ismail Merchant

  India, Film, Wells

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• There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

  Israel Zangwill

  Men, Hair, Long

  Israel Zangwill (2012). “The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes”, p.180, tredition

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• If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, Money, Long

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin

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• Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

  Amory Lovins

  Fate, Technology, Oil

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• As consumers we get more demanding all the time. We want better quality. We want it faster. And cheaper. Plus, we want more choices. Whoever comes along that can satisfy all these 'wants' gets our business.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Choices, Quality

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• Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

  Dorothy Draper

  Pieces, Way, Interior Design

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• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Learning, Wish

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• It's cheaper to keep her.

  Robin Williams

  Divorce

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• When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.

  Travis Kalanick

  Uber, Car, Magic

  "Uber riders to be able to hail self-driving cars for first time" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.

  Junior Johnson

  Smell, Woods, Heat

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• I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

  Allan Sherman

  Pay, Bills, Hospitality

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

  Phil Harding

  Long, Choices, Environmental

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• The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Luxury, Car

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

  Mary Karr

  Reading, Flip, Heroin

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• If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, School, Kids

  "Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

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• Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Your Smile, Expensive

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• Try to find if something out there is similar. If it's already being done, now you need to find out if you can do it better or cheaper. If you have a good product and no one's buying, improve it and tweak it.

  Cameron Johnson

  Trying, Needs, Done

  Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, medium.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

  John Dufresne

  Drug, Attention, Maintenance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

  Griffin Dunne

  Toronto, Benefits, Lines

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

  Jeff Goodell

  Gasoline, Ethanol, Cleaners

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• The only thing we need to sustain is the freedom to act on our judgment-which includes the freedom to use our property as we see fit. As long as we are free, we can keep the lights on and continue figuring out how to make them cheaper and brighter.

  Craig Biddle

  Light, Long, Needs

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• We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.

  Andrew Robb

  Mean, White, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

  Ethan Hawke

  Editing, Editors, Ideas

  "Ethan Hawke's fifth elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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