Luxury Quotes - Page 32

• I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

  Jodie Foster

  People, Able, Young

  "Jodie Foster Interview THE BEAVER; Plus an Update on Neill Blomkamp's ELYSIUM". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Views, Space

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.

  David Macklovitch

  Song, Thinking, Track

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• Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.

  James Marsden

  Couple, Commitment, Play

  "Cats and Dogs Voice Actors Curl Up with Kidzworld!". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Book, Attention, Moments

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody's life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Life Is Good, People, Style

  Lupe Fiasco interview with Complex magazine, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Numbers, People, World

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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• You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

  Karen Walker

  Vision, Niche, Walkers

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• Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.

  Simi Linton

  New York, Years, People

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• I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

  Arnold Palmer

  Airplane, Flying, Attention

  Source: barbaraterryauto.wordpress.com

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• Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Hours

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

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• I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Class, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.

  Miranda Kerr

  Fun, Vintage, Shoes

  "Miranda Kerr (A.K.A. the Perfect Outfit Maker) Spills Her Style Secrets and Spring Shopping List". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, House

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• A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Space

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• Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.

  Jason Terry

  Team, Want, Taxes

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  People, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Games, Feelings, Narrative

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• The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

  Drake Bell

  Hardest, Being Famous, Hardest Thing

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save time, each of us would have the equivalent of 300 slaves, in Roman times. We have these incredible luxuries, incredible power and privileges, but we seem to be squandering them on little plastic spoons to stir our coffee with, that'll last two seconds in our lives.

  Herbert

  Coffee, Technology, Two

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

  J. I. Packer

  Struggle, Maturity, Hardship

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• You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Wall, Believe

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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