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• Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, School, Support

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• I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

  Harold Prince

  Directors, Want

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• My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

  Jill Scott

  Mean, Grandmother, Debt

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• I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

  Taylor Swift

  Clothes, Scary, Events

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• ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Summer, Heart, Wings

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Broken, Desire, Moments

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.148, Penguin

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• The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Mean, Practice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Hay, Tomatoes, Cain

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• How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.

  Samuel Beckett

  Years, Long, Answers

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.101, Grove Press

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• This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

  Isaac Newton

  Book, Principles, Prejudice

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• If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Brother, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Science, Mad

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• Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

  Elisabeth Murdoch

  Garden, Tree, Care

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• I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Cameras

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Loss, Skills, Ideas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Death, Writing, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

  Kate Forsyth

  Running, Dog, War

  Kate Forsyth (2002). “The Fathomless Caves: Book Six of the Witches of Eileanan”, p.131, Penguin

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• The mystique and the romance of a big wedding are lost on me. I don't think that I could ever do something that extravagant. I am not much of a planner. I would probably make the phone call 20 minutes before the bus leaves for the chapel and ask if anyone is available to come. That's probably how my wedding is going to end up.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Phones, Romance

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• Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

  Carole Lombard

  Girl, Labels, Glamour

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

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• Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Ignorance, Growth

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.

  Mother Angelica

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

  Eileen Chang

  Gowns, Lice, Life Is

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• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Simple, Ideas

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

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