Luxury Quotes - Page 39

• Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.

  Robert H. Frank

  Class, People, House

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

  Robin Leach

  America, Achievement, Tragic

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Work Out, Mind

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's not enough just to be in a panic. We don't have the luxury to be depressed about Trump. We have to look at issues like health care and the price of pharmaceuticals, the $15 minimum wage and things that actually make a huge difference in a lot of people's lives. That's feminist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Differences, Issues, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Destiny, Special

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of so much stuff that didn't really matter in the scheme of things-like throwing stuff out of an airplane that kept me flying too low. What was left was essential, i.e. not a lot of extraneous stuff that had kept me busy and people-pleasing. I just didn't have the luxury of wasting my life force on so much stupidity and distraction. That made me strong.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.

  Dar Williams

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

  Jim James

  Lonely, Confused, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

  Clarence Thomas

  Negative, Bitter

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Needs, Hierarchy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Granted

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• Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Children, Good God, Prepared

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• Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

  Gillian Anderson

  Aunt, Trying, Facts

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• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Silence is the virtue of fools.

  Francis Bacon

  Silence, Fool, Virtue

  'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31

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• It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

  Jane Campion

  Character, Long, Able

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Poverty, Unbearable

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

  Nick Cave

  Feelings, Way, Idle

  "Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Girly, Women, Dresses

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• Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

  Cher

  Love, Funny Love, Men

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

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• I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Important Relationships, People

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

  Lauren Conrad

  Fitness, Busy, Being Busy

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• I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Simplicity, Needs

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• My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, House, Valleys

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