Expensive Quotes - Page 30

• The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

  Thornton Wilder

  Luxury, World

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• To be in the right is often an expensive business.

  Phyllis Bottome

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  Luxury, People, Gourmet

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• Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ambition, Emotional, Different

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• Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

  George Osborne

  Simple, Needs, Rich

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• Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

  Burt Rutan

  Government, Space, Effort

  "Private spacecraft blast offs June 21" by Leonard David, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.

  Jonathan Potter

  Loyalty, People, Giving

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• Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

  Asger Jorn

  Tasks, Painting, Currents

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Dream, Art, Lying

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• There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

  Melanie Griffith

  Sculpture, Bedroom, Antonio

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• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Wine, Bottles

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• I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.

  Arnold Bennett

  Important, Done, Want

  Arnold Bennett (1910). “The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts”, New York : G.H. Doran

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• Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

  Alain de Botton

  Joy, Remarkable, Ifs

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Taken, Government

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It's not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Real, Home

  Source: www.today.com

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• My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.

  Melissa Rivers

  Sides, Add, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note:
  "I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants." So I wrote back: "Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I'm not cutting off three inches for anyone.

  Akhil

  Beautiful, Wine, Cutting

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• I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Fighting, Men

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Female, Ships

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 452), 1987.

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• If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

  Hugh Downs

  Farewell, Opportunity, America

  ABC News, November 1990.

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• According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Thinking, News

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• Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

  Stacy London

  Style, May, Want

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• Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

  George Washington

  Good Company, Found, Company

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield

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