Luxury Quotes - Page 39

• I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

  Kiki Smith

  Reflection, Ideas, Fit

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Taken, Eye

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left-wing policy, even if we have a right-wing government. There are some countries which cannot say the same, so I'm lucky.

  Miguel Gomes

  Country, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.

  Dave Bautista

  Jobs, Independent, Actors

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I do the final fitting because the client wants me there. They're not spoilt, they really understand that you're very busy, but they just want you to say what you think - for just ten minutes. They really want to know your opinion because it really is a service at the end of the day, a luxury service.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Clients

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Evil, Metaphysical

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• Every day, possibly every hour as an entrepreneur, you do something that you absolutely could have done better with more time, more information, more experience, or more money - all luxuries you can't afford. So you do your best, and you move forward. The key is to see the forward momentum and not beat yourself up about how it could have been better.

  Jane Park

  Moving, Keys, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.

  Robert H. Frank

  Class, People, House

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

  Robin Leach

  America, Achievement, Tragic

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Work Out, Mind

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.

  Dar Williams

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Source: progressive.org

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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, Pioneers, World

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

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• It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Kings, Growing Up, Dark

  Charles M. Schulz (1971). “Snoopy and "It was a dark and stormy night"”, Henry Holt & Co

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• Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Belief, Mystery, Lasting

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• I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

  Charles Dickens

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opportunity

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Bleak House: Easyread Edition”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Civilization, Want

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.163, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Giving back is the new luxury.

  Franca Sozzani

  Giving, Giving Back

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• For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

  D. W Brogan

  Sports, Military, War

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• Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Compassion, Social

  Duane Elgin (1993). “Awakening earth: exploring the evolution of human culture and consciousness”, William Morrow & Co

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• Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.

  Leigh Michaels

  Book, People, Lovely

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• We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, America, Drug

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, People, Innovation

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

  Alistair Begg

  Ability, Contentedness, Turns

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• I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

  Anna Sui

  Successful, Clothes, Effects

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