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“Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.”

Ifs Needs Long Found Ability Answers Solutions Built East Expensive Unstable Adaptive Birthplace Ability To Adapt

Author:John Medina

“Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is to get, which often means a low price and ubiquitousness. A super-fidelity product or service would lose its luster and quality if it's pushed too hard toward convenience. A super-convenient product or service would start to get expensive and exclusive if it moved toward higher fidelity, which would naturally undermine its convenience.”

Ifs Mean Hard Easy Loses Quality Products Higher Lows Moved Including Expensive Exclusive Convenience Convenient Fidelity Auras Luster

Author:Kevin Maney

“You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you're gonna say them. You can't strategize.”

Ifs Want Matter Bigs Expensive

Author:Winona Ryder

“I read a piece by a guy out in Alberta that said Canadians are lazy because they're not patenting enough new inventions. I disagree. Canadians invent a lot of stuff. Actually patenting them is expensive.”

Said Enough Guy Stuff Pieces Invention Expensive Lazy Disagree New Inventions Alberta

Author:Margaret Atwood

“In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.”

“There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.”

Needs Looks Reason School Vision Cost Determination Reason Why Expensive No Reason More Money Expanding Textbooks Availability

Author:Amartya Sen

“I give away wheelchairs to people who need them because they're expensive and not everybody can afford one. So I figured why not raise funds to buy the chairs and improve people's ability to get around.”

People Needs Giving Ability Raises Expensive Chairs Fund Why Not Wheelchairs

Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib

“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.”

Writing Book Order Chance Numbers Quality Four Color Huge Higher Cost Paper Ocean Function Sells Expensive Customs Telephones Printing Packing Inventory Shipping Huge Numbers Clearance

Author:Dan Poynter

“There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.”

People Hard Remember Blue Notes Come Up Hearing Expensive Oscars 80s

Author:Jon Gordon

“If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.”

People Ifs World Want Ends Break Ideals Presses Strive Wheels Expensive This Day Museums Pot Not Interested End Of The World Mold Slabs

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.”

Humans Body Beautiful Culture Felt Rich Expression Balance Shoes Expensive Materialism Superficial Decoration Decorating Handbags Looking Beautiful

Author:David LaChapelle

“As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.”

Ifs Want Trying Film Directors Elements Studios Budgets Expensive Over It

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!”

Looks Sports Tennis Expensive Menus

Author:Anna Kournikova

“What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.”

Whole Artist Technology Objects Add Productions Expensive Construction Installation

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

Knows Inspirational Black Wealth Poor Poverty Know How Expensive Poor People Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty World Poverty Riches And Poors

Author:James A. Baldwin

“T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.”

Today Fashion Ten Dollars Shirts Expensive T Shirt Fashion Today

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”

Thinking Stuff Change Technology Complexity Expensive Interfaces

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.”

Kind Littles Two Science Differences Negative Expensive Electricity Cheaper Moths Durability Presuming

Book:Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches

Source: Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches

“Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.”

Kids Pay Bigger Boring Educated Expensive Incessantly Uncool Bigger And Better

Author:Denis Leary

“Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”

Actors Movie Expensive Digital

Author:Ang Lee

“Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.”

Way Different Character Film Certain Effects Design Summer Shots Expensive Blockbuster

Author:Ang Lee

“I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.”

White Morning Youth Drink Eternal China Tea Expensive Silver Emperor Needles Buckets Eternal Youth

Author:Antonio Banderas

“What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.”

People Kind Seems Plans Expensive Destroying Obamacare Noticing Replacements

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.”

Helping Magazines Expensive

Author:Tyra Banks

“Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.”

Ifs Looks Stills Interest Can Do Forget Expensive Forget It Printed Texture Colorful Outfits Monochromatic

Author:Stacy London

“I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.”

Reason Car Habit Expensive Nonsense No Reason Wealthy Collectors

Author:John Lydon

“I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.”

Long Fun Mountain Excellent Having Fun Expensive Resorts Skis Snobby

Author:John Lydon

“A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.”

Love Science Asks Marriage Wife My Wife Clever Expensive Psychiatry Psychiatrist Husband And Wife Your Husband Love And Marriage Marriage Love Wives Love Love Your Wife

Author:Joey Adams

“Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.”

Looks Faces Turns Rooms Clothes Faults Including Saint Kitchen Expensive Collections Thrown Grotesque Couture Kitchen Sinks

Author:Alexander McQueen

“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”

Music Break Groups Rocks Dear Theme Expensive Opera Unheard

Author:Freddie Mercury

“Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?”

Doe I Can Hair Cost These Days Expensive Electricity Balloons

Author:Dennis Miller

“You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Ideas Values Culture Five Cost Dollars Expensive

Author:Moby

“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

Men Funny Known Humorous Noise Expensive Opera

Author:Moliere

“If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.”

Ifs Thinking Technology Phones Cells Expensive Cell Phone New Technology Laptops

Author:Elon Musk

“If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.”

Ifs Would Be Planes Expensive Flew

Author:Elon Musk

“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”

Should Reality Bits Environment Cost Degrees Remains Oil Damage Expensive Gas Mining Gas Prices Incorporating Externalities Uranium Mining Market Failure

Author:Elon Musk

“The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.”

Ifs Has Beens Ocean Ships Conquer Revolutionary Expensive Mars Breakthrough Rockets Colony Colonizing Mars

Author:Elon Musk

“You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.”

Knows Divorce Expensive Worth It

Author:Willie Nelson

“Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'”

Firsts Funny Jesus Religious Coffee Cups Expensive Caffeine Starbucks Funny Coffee Great Coffee Morning Coffee Mornings And Coffee Funny Morning Coffee

Author:Conan O'Brien

“As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.”

“I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.”

I Can Beautiful Actors Tables Lifetime Scripts Expensive Steam Picky

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”

Mother Natural Careers Humorous Motherhood Alternatives Expensive Stakes Fitness Insisting

Book:Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

Source: Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

“I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.”

Car Lifestyle Expensive Expensive Cars Lavish Lifestyle

Author:Donny Osmond

“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”

Law Winning Loses Expensive Win Or Lose Unproductive

Book:The Money Master

Source: The Money Master

“I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.”

Stills Lows Hot Manage Expensive Pockets Expenditures

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”

Way Matter Government Tasks No Matter What Expensive Incompetent

Author:Charley Reese

“Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.”

Men Way Done Marriage Average Expensive Laundry Average Man

Author:Burt Reynolds

“A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.”

Red Wine Alcohol Expensive Red Wine Margarita

Author:Denise Richards

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

Political Politics Witty Expensive Sunset Lots Of Money Defeated Political Will Money In Politics

Author:Will Rogers

“Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.”

Years Firsts Space Technology Dangerous Absurd Expensive Fifty Portions Rockets Space Travel Space Shuttle

Author:Burt Rutan

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