Shopping Quotes - Page 13

• No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

  Sandie Shaw

  Able, Reputation, Fame

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• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eugenics, Tree, Forests

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• The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Book, Giving, Magic

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

  Bob Brown

  Heart, Eye, Grandchildren

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• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Airports, Organization, Make Or Break

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• When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Independent, Articulation, Streets

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• When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Air, Advertising, Spontaneity

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• I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

  Stevie Nicks

  Rainbow, Different, Life Is

  "Jesse Ventura plays the blame game" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. May 16, 2001.

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• For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

  Shannen Doherty

  Self, House, Leave Me Alone

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• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

  Irene Dunne

  Years, Hounds, Used

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• The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Lying, Home

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• My mom does all the grocery shopping.

  Scott Wolf

  Mom, Doe, Groceries

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• Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Children, Adventure, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Real, World

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

  Rachael Ray

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

  Clay Aiken

  Jobs, Glasses, Hair

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• I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

  Johnny Galecki

  Drinking, Film, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• President Obama made a big speech. He welcomed the members of the U.N. General Assembly to New York, and he said, 'I'd like to encourage you to do some shopping while you're here.' I think it worked because China immediately bought eight banks, two car companies, and the state of Wyoming.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Thinking, Eight

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• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  William Rivers Pitt

  Holiday, Two, People

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• My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

  Vincent Gallo

  Birthday, Mother, People

  "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.

  Charles Duhigg

  Children, Window, Moments

  "Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 5, 2012.

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• I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

  Bruce Baum

  Funny, Home, Television

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• I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

  Linda Evans

  Beautiful, People, World

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• I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

  Jon Stewart

  Atlanta, Clubs

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