Materialistic Quotes - Page 2

• I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Home, People, India

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

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• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Artist, Hollywood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Comfort, World

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.108, Penguin

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

  Joan Didion

  Power, Use, Guilty

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 26, 2011

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Mind, Evolution Of Man

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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• Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Perfection, Mind

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• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Pride, Sacrifice

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

  Mary McCarthy

  Character, Views, Argument

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.

  Kimbra

  Morning, Thinking, Ideas

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• Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Selfish, Eye, Goal

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• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Running, Stars

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• I got the pumps It aint got medicine

  Nicki Minaj

  Medicine, Pumps

  Song: Roman's Revenge, Album: Pink Friday

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• I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

  Nicki Minaj

  Needs, Tiffany's, Epiphany

  Song: 5 Star Chick

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• I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Barbie, Ems

  Song: 1234

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• Fendi on my slippers & my cookies always slippery

  Nicki Minaj

  Cookies, Slippers, Slippery

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• Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her

  Nicki Minaj

  Dope, Boys, Causes

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• I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags

  Nicki Minaj

  Swag, Mad, Bags

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• Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

  Harold Urey

  Cities, Feet, History

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• Real big pretty titty, shut down every city. If you want the kit kitty, gotta get the key from me, all new everything, plus pay the rent for me. If we in the woods then these niggas pitch a tent for me.

  Nicki Minaj

  Real, Keys, Cities

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• See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin

  Nicki Minaj

  New Things

  Song: Roman's Revenge, Album: Pink Friday

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• Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka!

  Nicki Minaj

  Color, Yeah

  "Kanye West - "Monster" [ft. Justin Vernon, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj]" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

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