Expensive Quotes - Page 33

• The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
  Younger and pinker every year,
  Bloom gradually out of reach.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Girl, Women, Years

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.

  Richard Stolley

  Children, Block, Kids

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

  Sam Simon

  Life, Animal, Desire

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• At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

  Jerry Brown

  Cocaine

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• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Decay, Virtue

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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• You have a great body. It is an intricate piece of technology and a sophisticated super-computer. It runs on peanuts and even regenerates itself. Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you'll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good.

  Steve Goodier

  Running, Technology, Important Relationships

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• I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

  Om Puri

  Holiday, Needs, Brands

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

  Joseph Pilates

  Home, Exercise, Doe

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• I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

  Sean Pertwee

  Carpe Diem, Boots, Pairs

  "Pertwee reveals sexual panting". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 20, 2008.

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• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Fall, Fiction Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

  Katha Pollitt

  Self Confidence, Healthy, Body

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• I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

  Shaun Fleming

  New York, Towns, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Government, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Paper, Reason

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• Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

  John Maxwell Hamilton

  News, Levels, Kind

  "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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• There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

  David Foster Wallace

  Vacation, Anxiety, Kind

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Care, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.

  James Cromwell

  Directors, Watches, Needs

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• I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Europe, Two

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• I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Couple, Golf, Thinking

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• Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

  Alexander McQueen

  Kitchen, Looks, Couture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.

  Sally Ride

  Country, Mistake, Space Flight

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Raw Materials, Film

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