Luxury Quotes
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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I'm not going to have a six-pack abs. I think it's a luxury to have six-pack abs, but I don't think I can afford it yet. It's extremely tough, and I think having it will be an achievement.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
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I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.
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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
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I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.
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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
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It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
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Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.
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Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
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Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
