Luxury Quotes - Page 40

• It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Fishing, Feeding

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• Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Ifs

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• The client is not always right.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Aerodynamics, Car, Racing

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

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• When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Doors, Comfort, Locks

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• You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

  Brad Garrett

  Birthday, Happiness, Smile

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• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  Gary Hamel

  Innovation, Company, Billions

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• There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

  Michael Haneke

  Luxury Hotels, Evil, Sitting

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• There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Hard Times, Careers, Decision

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Dull, Habit

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

  Marc Jacobs

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.

  Marc Jacobs

  Jobs, Teenager, Years

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• Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

  Marc Jacobs

  Beautiful, Nice, Wine

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• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Tired, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 20 Sept. 1777)

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• I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

  John Keats

  Two, Literature, Hours

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

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• I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

  Ludacris

  School, Car, Muscles

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• I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, Opportunity, Actors

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Giving, Soul

  "Dear Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus".

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• We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Giving Up, Thinking, Economic Models

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• If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Teenager, Would Be, Records

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Roots, Effort

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cuddling, Too Much

  "In the Hot Seat, Part II: Activism and Controversy". Satya Interview, www.satyamag.com. January 2001.

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• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Work, Nice

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• Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

  Robert Orben

  Democracy, Firsts, Selling

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• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Self, Ebay

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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