Expensive Quotes - Page 20

• Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

  Scott Schuman

  Mean, Expression, Style

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• Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Vanity, Knowing

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• Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

  Jane Jacobs

  Indispensable, Redundancy

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.159, Vintage

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• You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Men, Thinking

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  Lindsey Davis

  Effort, Community, Missing

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• I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

  Andy Summers

  Thinking, Rocks, Records

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

  Gary Neville

  Winning, Player, Years

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• Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

  Kanye West

  Airports, Oxford, Luxury

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

  Moby

  Weed, New York, Growing Up

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• I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

  Leo Kottke

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

  Tinie Tempah

  Character, Italian, Elephants

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• Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

  SebastiAn

  Years, Two, Care

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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, California

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• Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

  Patricia Duncker

  Priceless

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• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, War, Winning

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• Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain fought and certainly the most expensive. Its climax was total victory. Yet there was no parade, no medals, no colours hung in cathedrals. The Cold War saw no battles and cost almost no blood. Where there is no blood there is no glory and hence no history. Asked What did you do in the war, Daddy?, I could say only that I paid my taxes and left it at that.

  Simon Jenkins

  War, Blood, Years

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• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, California, Hollywood

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

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• Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

  B. B. King

  Notes

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• There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

  Camille Paglia

  Egalitarianism, Political, Phrases

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• Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Color, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Flower, Gun

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• The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

  Darrell Huff

  Mean, Cost, Use

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teeth

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Money, Years, Luxury

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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