Expensive Quotes - Page 16

• Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car...

  Tim Key

  Mcdonalds, Car, Drive Thru

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Golf, Glasses

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• God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

  Kevin Maurer

  Religious, Toys, Break

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Struggle, Advice

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• Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

  Clement Freud

  Racing, Way, Racehorses

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• Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Book, Computer

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• If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

  Ralf Speth

  Fighting, Thinking, Design

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.

  Edward Burns

  Intelligent, Years, Two

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• Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

  Garrison Keillor

  Divorce, Worth It

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• Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

  Sunil Bharti Mittal

  Skills, People, Growth

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• Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

  Delia Smith

  Kitchen, Pay, Lasts

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• Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, War, Mean

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Expression, Order

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.

  James D. Macdonald

  Lawsuit, Lots Of Money

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• There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

  Lauren Santo Domingo

  Girl, Designer Clothes, Two

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2011

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• Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

  Andree Putman

  Beautiful, Feelings, Secret

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• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Inspiration, India

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• The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

  Alan Russell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Care

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• But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

  Daphne Guinness

  Long, Interesting, Lasts

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• Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Men, Years, Care

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• It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

  Ed Seykota

  Trying, Convince

  "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.

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• The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Believe, Past

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• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

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

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