Thrift Quotes - Page 7

• Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Skills, Care

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• It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

  James Beard

  Use, Waste, Ingredients

  James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”

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• When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Nice, Apology

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Land, Air

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• A great day on tour would be if I would say a two-hour drive, so you can wake up and you don't have to leave right away. You can go get breakfast somewhere nice that someone recommends in the town, and it turns out to be good. Then you can kind of check out the town, someone might recommend you to a cool thrift store, a record store, a nice park or something. You can have some time to yourself.

  Kevin Morby

  Nice, Great Day, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and intelligence, but there's pretty privilege in the world - that's a reality. When I was a kid, in middle school, I started going to thrift stores and dressing myself. It was about announcing to the world who I was. That's what fashion was for me, as a kid. You might have an idea of who you think I am, but I'm going to tell you through my fashion choices who I am.

  Laverne Cox

  Fashion, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.

  William Graham Sumner

  Military, Power, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Scottish, Temper, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

  Lorde

  Shopping, Dollars, Three

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• The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

  Benjamin

  Art, Men, Practice

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• It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Practice, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.

  Nate Ruess

  Home, Journey, Play

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• The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Opposites, Generosity, Consumption

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

  Confucius

  Mean, Self, Waste

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. Im in the exact same outfit every day.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Jeans, White, Looks

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• I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

  Michael Dumontier

  Library, Done, Research

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Order, Ideas, Income

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.125, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.

  Lou Doillon

  Girl, Teenager, Buying

  "How I get dressed". Interview with Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• And when I say [M2 was] lo-fi production, it was so great and grimy. I was used to that world anyway, because we shot in bars, we shot in thrift shops, we shot on the street. And the bars, they would have just opened, and still there was barf on the floor and beer. We certainly kept it real. It was a small crew.

  Jancee Dunn

  Real, Beer, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

  John Dewey

  Emotional, Intellectual, Attention

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

  Alan Bishop

  Clothes, Phones, Cells

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

  Iman Shumpert

  Army, Dope, Together

  Source: wwd.com

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• [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don't have the patience.

  Robin Givhan

  Girl, Vintage, Shops

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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