Buying Quotes - Page 22

• Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Book, Home, Thinking

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

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• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  Patrick Carney

  Song, Two, Looks

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• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Stars, War, Kids

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• Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Voice, People, Looks

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• It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

  Chris Daughtry

  Fans, Band, May

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• Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

  Glenn Danzig

  Records, Drink, Comic

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• I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Art, Native American, Years

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• I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

  Melanie Fiona

  Girl, Makeup

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• I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said "I’ve stopped buying the New York Times." Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

  Bernard Goldberg

  New York, Real, Names

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Bernie Goldberg". Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

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• There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Country, Thinking, Comfort

  "Transcript: Jose Maria Aznar on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Depressing, Humor

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• When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch.

  Phyllis Diller

  Home, School, Kids

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• Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

  Robert Herrick

  Spirit, God Love, Eternity

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• I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

  Lynn Johnston

  Car, Buying A Car, Lifestyle

  "For Better or For Worse (ID 1382)". Comic strip by Lynn Johnston, www.fbofw.com. December 9, 1987.

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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• It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Hero

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.77

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• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying... We've shopped till we dropped alright, face down on the floor.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Unique, People, Roles

  "World’s Designated Shoppers Drop" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2008.

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• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Mean, Self

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

  CM Punk

  Debt, Cash, I Can

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dvds, People, Fifteen

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

  Robert Kenner

  Free Market, Free Society, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• ... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

  Marie Corelli

  Ideas, Stuff, Meat

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.8, Health Research Books

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sacrifice, Self, Shrines

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• Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, Moving, Home

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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