Buying Quotes - Page 29

• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Book, Two, Democracy

  Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

  Felix Dennis

  Inspirational, Thinking, Land

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Sports

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• Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

  Frank Stronach

  Foundation, Machines, Employee

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• Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

  David Korten

  Hands, People, Choices

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• Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

  David Bach

  Life, Home, Buying A Home

  David Bach (2006). “The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: A Powerful Plan to Finish Rich in Real Estate”, p.4, Crown Business

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• I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're the ones buying the tickets and coming to the shows. They're the professionals in this business, and they're the only ones who can tell you which songs have the ability to move them.

  Eric Church

  Song, Real, Moving

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• There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you....The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get used to it. If somebody comes up to you while you're eating dinner or something, it's kind of like, 'Well, I asked for it.' It's much better than the alternative-nobody caring and nobody buying your music. The point is to try to just realize that these people are really excited, and that's a good thing. You want them to be that way.

  Carrie Underwood

  Caring, People, Over You

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

  Martin Sheen

  Bucks, Easy, Selling

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• I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Cutting, Who I Am

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

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• I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.

  Meg Ryan

  Song, Childhood, Joining

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• Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

  Andy Rooney

  Pigs, Sausage, Littles

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• In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!

  Jay Leno

  War, Chocolate, Jenny

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• I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

  Bo Bice

  Song, Guy, Albums

  "'American Idol' vets Bo Brice, Constantine Maroulis can't stop rocking'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Doors, Dinner, Yeah

  "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

  Billie Piper

  Flower, Home, Too Much

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

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• I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

  Robert Pattinson

  Addiction, Cinnamon, Coke

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student

  Patricia Heaton

  Home, Kids, College

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• We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.

  Nina Garcia

  Clothes, Shoes, Firsts

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• You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Cities, House, Three

  "Vanessa Paradis annoyed by rumours about a split with Johnny Depp" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. January 25, 2012.

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• I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Towns

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• What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

  Nick Hancock

  Moving, Home, Parks

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• I don’t believe you can ever get hurt by buying a good location at a low price.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Believe, Location

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