Expensive Quotes - Page 31

• New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, No Money

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

  Denzel Washington

  Creative, Privilege, Mediums

  Source: movieweb.com

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• To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

  Paul Theroux

  Animal, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wine, World, Proud

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• If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Mistake, Quality, Ends

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.43, Routledge

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• Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.

  Aerin Lauder

  Beautiful, Beach, Children

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• I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. Im not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

  Birch Bayh

  Thinking, Differences, Numbers

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• Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

  Coolio

  Nice, Ghetto, Men

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

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• The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

  Martin McDonagh

  People, Broadway, Facts

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• Im not attracted to expensive things.

  Roger McGuinn

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• If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Purple, Risk

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• If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

  Lee Radziwill

  Orchids, Giving, Reason

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• In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

  Peter Temple

  Grief, Writing, Plot

  "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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• The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Hiring

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• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  Aaron Huey

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

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• Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

  Buzzy Trent

  Class, Sailing, Way

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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.

  Dries van Noten

  Beautiful, Fashion, Flower

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• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  Ted Baillieu

  House, Cheaper

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• Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Doctors, Water, Tubs

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• Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Shoes, Clothes, May

  Mireille Guiliano (2014). “French Women Don't Get Facelifts: Aging with Attitude”, p.25, Random House

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• Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Mean, Band, Next

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• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  Nancy Lublin

  Love Is, Choices, Discrimination

  "How The Gays Can Save Us" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Loss, Atheism

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• My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, School, Successful

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