Expensive Quotes - Page 14

• The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

  Tom Hooper

  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Government, People, Death Penalty

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• Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

  Brian Barry

  Two, Missing, Would Be

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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• A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment.

  Doug Henwood

  Real, Giving, Tasks

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• Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Epic, Mexican

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• I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.

  Ellen Page

  People, Common Sense, Priorities

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Imperfect, Language

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• In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

  Mike Nichols

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

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• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Book, Wine, Passion

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• Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

  Sarah Beeny

  Jobs, Firsts

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• I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

  Gerard Butler

  Believe, Mean, Independent

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• Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Book, Guy, Cost

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• Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

  Robin Tunney

  Movie, People, Needs

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• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  Alfred Molina

  Hands, Creative, Roles

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• High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.

  Eugene Mirman

  Girl, Pain, Father

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• If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

  Stephen Colbert

  Teacher, Children, Cutting

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• Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.

  Brody Jenner

  Enough, Made, Malibu

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!

  Robert Pattinson

  Being Yourself, Clothes, Looks

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• I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Two, Clothes, Looks

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.

  Nina Garcia

  Beautiful, Fun, Knowing

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• Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Fashion, Style

  FaceBook post by Nina Garcia from Mar 21, 2011

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Machines, Preference, Programmers

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.22, Addison-Wesley Professional

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