Expensive Quotes - Page 9

• I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

  John Lydon

  Car, Nonsense, Reason

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• I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.

  John Lydon

  Fun, Long, Mountain

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• Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

  Fred Wilson

  Equity, Raises

  "Startup Financing 101: Capital Equipment Loans" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

  Helen Fisher

  Car, Guy, Watches

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• Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Individual, Projects, Charismatic

  "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipods, Design, Doe

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• While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fun, Simple, College

  "Learn to code, get a job" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.82, Zed Books

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

  Frank Zappa

  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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• Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

  Aryn Kyle

  Tickets

  Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

  Edith Wharton

  Mistress

  "Old New York".

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• In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Boys, Sky

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.122, DEBOLS!LLO

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• That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

  Alan Moore

  Marketing, Phrases, Idiot

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• It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Liberty

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• My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hands, Insanity, Restaurants

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India

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• While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Later In Life, Cities, Addiction

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, St. Martin's Press

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Free Gifts

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• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Political, Might

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• Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.

  Richard Neustadt

  Action, Continuing, Drastic

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

  Robert Reich

  Cutting, Energy, Looks

  "Is U.S. doing enough for climate? Listen to this story". Interview with Steve Chiotakis, www.marketplace.org. October 16, 2009.

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• ...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Support, Important, Energy

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