Luxury Quotes - Page 23

• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Goal, Superstitions

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• A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

  Clive James

  Play, Water, Transport

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spiritual, War, Choices

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• The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Mistake

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

  Evan Davis

  Healthy, Elements, Trouble

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• Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, People, Writer's Block

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• We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

  Sara Blakely

  Family, Important, Family And Friends

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  M. Ward

  People, Performing Music, Heard

  "M. Ward Going Solo Once Again" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com.

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• Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

  Bernard Arnault

  Focus, Expansion, World

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• I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

  Laz Alonso

  Inspiration, Home, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  Gary Ackerman

  Hands, People, Flying

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• Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

  Jimmy Carr

  Luxury Hotels, Giving, Room Service

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• There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Country, Stars

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

  Vince Cable

  Trying, Normal, Feels

  "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Three, Company, Pursue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Sleep, Wow, Ifs

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• In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

  Willem Dafoe

  Moving, Play, Levels

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

  Britt Ekland

  Feet, Bills

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• It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

  Kelli Giddish

  Dream, New York, Moving

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• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  Andre Balazs

  Fashion, Reality, Thinking

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• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Character, Space

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• Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Cutting, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.119, Verso

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• Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lifestyle, Individual, Neglect

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• Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Years, Dollars, Cost

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