Expensive Quotes - Page 27

• Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Doctors, Years

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• Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

  Grant Tinker

  Success, Enough, Periods

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• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

  Louise Brooks

  Names, Giving, Anecdotes

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• Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Should, Force

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

  Millard Drexler

  Kids, America, Training

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• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  Carl Lewis

  Pay, Busy, Advise

  "Carl Lewis speaks out on Bolt, U.S. performance in Beijing, more". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

  Evan Davis

  Luxury, Healthy, Elements

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• I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Special, Encounters

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

  Bob Beauprez

  Obamacare, Majority, Pages

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• You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

  Brian Baird

  Real, Special, Bills

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• We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

  Bruce Brown

  United States, Needs, Best Education

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• I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

  Conrad Burns

  Distance, School, Technology

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• The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Iraq, Long, Ends

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• When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Special, United States

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• If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

  Samantha Bee

  Jobs, New York, If I Could

  "Daily Show's Samantha Bee salutes Canadian roots". Interview with Andrew Ryan, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 14, 2011.

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• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  Samantha Bee

  Real, Hair, Color

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• I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hair, Bed, Shots

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Top Model’ Is One Of The Best Jobs I’ve Ever Had" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

  Lee Child

  Hands, Quality, Cliffs

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Growing Up, People, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

  Sean Astin

  Bmw, Car, Machines

  "iPhone: 'If you'd shown it to Benjamin Franklin his head would have exploded'" by Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

  Harry Browne

  Fire, Oil, Car

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• My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

  George Strait

  Relationship, Beautiful, Believe

  Song: Hollywood Squares

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• My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dream, Car, World

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