Luxury Quotes - Page 40

• 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, Dollars, Done

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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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• Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

  Tony Kushner

  Lying, Writing, House

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

  Susan Rice

  Europe, Age, Regions

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• We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

  Susan Rice

  Risk, Suffering, Germany

  "Each Side Has to Do More". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. July 21, 2008.

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• Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

  Carolina Herrera

  World, Matter, Happens

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• The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

  Ron Perlman

  Thinking, Guy, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

  Julianne Nicholson

  Discovery, People, Comfort

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Artist, Actors, Ifs

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

  Steve Guttenberg

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.

  Amber Sealey

  Eye, Hair, Shooting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Needs, Pages, Six

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.

  Aerin Lauder

  Beautiful, Beach, Children

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• Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

  Oscar Wilde

  Let Me, Can Do, I Can

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• Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

  Antonio Damasio

  Intelligent, Outcomes, Way

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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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• The greatest luxury is being free.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Being Free

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