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• You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

  Moby

  Ideas, Dollars, Culture

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

  Moliere

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Would Be, Flew, Planes

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

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• The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

  Elon Musk

  Reality, Oil, Uranium Mining

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

  Elon Musk

  Ocean, Mars, Rockets

  «Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will» by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

  Willie Nelson

  Divorce, Knows, Worth It

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• Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Religious, Jesus

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• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Teacher, Motivation, Creativity

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• I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.

  Peter O'Toole

  Beautiful, Actors, Tables

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• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Fitness, Mother, Humorous

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

  Donny Osmond

  Car, Lavish Lifestyle, Lifestyle

  "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

  Gilbert Parker

  Winning, Law, Win Or Lose

  Gilbert Parker (2013). “The Money Master”, p.208, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

  Robert Pattinson

  Pockets, Hot, Lows

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• Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Tasks, Matter

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• Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

  Burt Reynolds

  Marriage, Men, Average

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• A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

  Denise Richards

  Wine, Alcohol, Red

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• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Sunset, Political Will

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• Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Space

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• Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Care, Honest

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

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• Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Taste, Truffles, Certain

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• We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

  Peter Singer

  Meaningful, People, Generations

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• Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Giving, Fuel, Electricity

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• You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

  Kevin Smith

  Crush, People, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Vaccines, People, Rich

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