Expensive Quotes - Page 17

• Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.

  Richard Neustadt

  Action, Continuing, Drastic

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

  Robert Reich

  Cutting, Energy, Looks

  "Is U.S. doing enough for climate? Listen to this story". Interview with Steve Chiotakis, www.marketplace.org. October 16, 2009.

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• ...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Support, Important, Energy

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• Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Money, Heart, Divorce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life."

  Jon Stewart

  Morning, Mean, Circles

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• If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

  Pierre Marie Gallois

  Funny, Humor, Machines

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• One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

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• Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Luxury, Issues

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• The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

  Tom Hooper

  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

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

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• It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Government, People, Death Penalty

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• Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

  Brian Barry

  Two, Missing, Would Be

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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• A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment.

  Doug Henwood

  Real, Giving, Tasks

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• Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Epic, Mexican

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• I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.

  Ellen Page

  People, Common Sense, Priorities

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Imperfect, Language

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• In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

  Mike Nichols

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

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• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Book, Wine, Passion

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• Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

  Sarah Beeny

  Jobs, Firsts

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• I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

  Gerard Butler

  Believe, Mean, Independent

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• Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Book, Guy, Cost

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• Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

  Robin Tunney

  Movie, People, Needs

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• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  Alfred Molina

  Hands, Creative, Roles

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