Shopping Quotes - Page 9

• Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Learning, Media, Giving

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• I have always had the same New Year resolutions: To stop smoking, to start wearing a bra, and to stop shopping.

  Cameron Diaz

  New Year, Years, Smoking

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• I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

  Drew Barrymore

  Style, Sun, Modern

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• The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.

  Rihanna

  Fashion, Risk, Thrill

  "Rihanna's Fashion Faves". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Museums, Cities, Dallas

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• Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

  Unknown

  Online, Fantastic, Ability

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• I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Girl, Dresses, Looks

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• One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

  Delia Ephron

  Mistake, Quarters, Turns

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping.

  Julia Roberts

  Fashion, Clothes, Naked

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• Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

  Agnes Repplier

  Essentials, World, Compromise

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• Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, School

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.184, Random House

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• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  Molly Ivins

  Kings, Pyramids, America

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.94, Vintage

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• Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Cities, Car, Brain

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Erosion, Sky

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Yarn, Use

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing

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• If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  United States, British, Shopkeepers

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• There is nothing so costly as bargains.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Bargains

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• The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

  Anita Roddick

  Demand, Next, Consumerism

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• I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

  Dean Winters

  Beautiful, Heart, Clothes

  "Dean Winters Is Pretty Stylish for an Insurance Salesman". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.

  Sean Faris

  Beautiful, Girl, Maintenance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Wall, Long, Half

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• I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Hate, Talking, Guests

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

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• I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

  Mindy Kaling

  Sweaters, Office, Boss

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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