Expensive Quotes
917 quotes by 780 authors
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The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.
— Ashton Kutcher
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Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where…
— Mary Schapiro
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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered…
— Charlie Pierce
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Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban…
— Teju Cole
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My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to…
— Jon Katz
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If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he…
— Arsene Wenger
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws…
— David Mamet
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap…
— Ben Stein
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Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
— Lisa Randall
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Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance…
— Jan Koum
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it…
— Dana Goodyear
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The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
— Michael J. Saylor
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Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with…
— Anita Elberse
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With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success…
— Anita Elberse
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The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long…
— Margaret Geller
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Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
— Jose Mujica
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The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the…
— Martin Jacques
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