Luxury Items Quotes

• For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

  William Gibson

  Night, Luxury, Fake

  Source: craphound.com

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• Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Years, Luxury, Might

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• I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

  Emo Philips

  Luxury, Cuban, Items

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2010

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• That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.

  Klaus Topfer

  Luxury, People, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.

  Simi Linton

  New York, Years, Luxury

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• I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.

  Rene Redzepi

  Thinking, Luxury, Pioneers

  "René Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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• It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.

  Warren Farrell

  Class, Luxury, Parent

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

  Jay Leno

  Luxury, Peanuts, Economy

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• The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

  John Neff

  Sky, Luxury, Dollars

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• Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

  Rob Conway

  Reality, Phones, Luxury

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

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• The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  Michael Parenti

  Nature, Money, Army

  "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.

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• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  Nate Silver

  Book, Luxury, Printing

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