Expensive Quotes - Page 28

• If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

  Aaron Neville

  Baby, Boys, Play

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• Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

  Morton Blackwell

  Goal, Opponents

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gambling, Casinos, Financial

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

  Gail Simmons

  Thinking, People, Taste

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Drama, Comedy, Kind

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• I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

  Tom Glazer

  Years, Special, Serious

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• Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Moon, Numbers

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• Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Italian, Political

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• Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Party, Italian

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• Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.

  Vinod Khosla

  Oil, Long, Records

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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• There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

  Ralph Merkle

  California, Example, Certain

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Mean, Thinking

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

  Jared Polis

  Intellectual, Rogues, Stealing

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• Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Insanity, Therapy, Wraps

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• Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

  George Mikes

  Country, Mean, Tourists

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• W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Community, Secret

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• I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

  Bai Ling

  Flower, Guy, Plastic Flowers

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

  Will Oldham

  Cds, Looks, Chance

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• Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music Is, Preparing, Propositions

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• Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

  Christina Romer

  People, Helping, Firm

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• It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  New York, Band

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• As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

  Jim Ramstad

  Taxpayers, Taxes, Wells

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• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  Wayne Rogers

  People, Hollywood

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• That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

  Michele Bachmann

  Conservative, Problem, Complicated

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