Lavish Lifestyle Quotes

• We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Animal, People, Might

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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

  Donny Osmond

  Car, Expensive, Lifestyle

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

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• Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

  Alex Berenson

  Dollars, Answers, Helping

  "Ideas & Trends: Overcompensating; In Fraud Cases, Guilt Can Be Skin Deep" by Alex Berenson, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Lifestyle

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• We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Hate, Dollars

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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