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“Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.”

World Country Luxury Entertaining

Author:Eula Biss

“As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Long Giving Up Victim Monsters Luxury Get Away Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Giving Up Luxury Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.”

Jobs Fun Acting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Grateful Luxury Wonderful Things

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.”

Mean Beautiful House Company Middle Fields Luxury Hotel Good Food Eclectic Good Company Funky Posh

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Ends Would Be Film Turns Actors Knowing Wonderful Particular Skills Projects Scripts Luxury Toms Cruise Great Film

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.”

Kind Feelings Remember Given Presses Coffee I Realized Luxury Makers Buttons Sentimental Exes Dumped

Author:Mo Rocca

“I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.”

Country Car Luxury Communist

Author:Robert Herjavec

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.”

Men Pleasure Fortune Riches Luxury Sensual Consent Grandeur Homage Sensual Pleasure

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index

“A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.”

Ill Luxury Expensive Spite Rudeness

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.”

Author:Chaz Bono

“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.”

People Has Beens Luxury Stolen Oxford Oxford University

Author:Kanye West

“In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.”

Ifs Enough Economy Focused Luxury Fuel Fuel Economy

Author:Robert M. Carter

“The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.”

Wells Levels Technology Safety Size Definitions Luxury Relate Innovative Lexus

Author:Robert M. Carter

“Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.”

Art America Luxury

Author:Hallie Flanagan

“Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.”

People Should Country Order Understanding Democracy Theater Mediums Our Country Luxury

Author:Hallie Flanagan

“I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.”

Hard House Fun Space Stage Tiny Luxury Giants Seats

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.”

People Whole Suffering Given Community Millions Scene Findings Dollars Incredibles Wave Boat Luxury Islands Shore Million Dollars Surf Charter

Author:Rob Machado

“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.”

Stills Different Stories Wanted School Courses Audience Stage Fronts Television Involved High School Exciting Theater Luxury Get Back Broadway

Author:Dennis Haysbert

“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”

Opportunity Teacher Failing Cost Incredibles Luxury Realising Sanity Opportunities To Learn

Author:Arabella Weir

“In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”

“In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.”

Age Europe Luxury Regions This Day

Author:Susan Rice

“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.”

Suffering Half Risk Honest Consequence Assuming Luxury Being Honest Germany Afghanistan Pakistan Skates Half Measures Suffering The Consequences

Author:Susan Rice

“Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.”

People Thinking Needs Space Luxury

Author:Christie Brinkley

“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.”

Men Needs Nations He Man Essentials Luxury Injury

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.”

World Matter Happens No Matter What Luxury

Author:Carolina Herrera

“The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.”

Thinking Guy Television Shots Luxury

Author:Ron Perlman

“Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.”

People Turns Courses Fronts Comfort Discovery Terror Luxury Rehearsal

Author:Julianne Nicholson

“Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.”

Ifs Artist Actors Luxury

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.”

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.”

I Can Eye Imagine Hair Directors Lows Aspect Productions Luxury Shooting Budgets Department Part Time Catering

Author:Amber Sealey

“To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.”

Art Able Luxury

Author:Anchee Min

“Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.”

Author:Edward Everett Hale

“If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.”

Ifs Pay Luxury Atmosphere

Book:100 Selected Stories

Source: 100 Selected Stories

“In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.”

Needs Film Five Six Pages Luxury Every Second

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.”

Thinking Feels Mean Children Moments Beautiful Walks Special Kissing Our Children Luxury Beach Your Children Expensive Fragrance Beautiful Picture Picture Frames

Author:Aerin Lauder

“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”

I Can Can Do Let Me Luxury

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.”

Way Certain Emotion Intelligent Driving Luxury Outcomes Organisms

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.”

Thinking Knows World Normal Luxury Restaurants Items Pioneers Scandinavia Luxury Items

Author:Rene Redzepi

“The greatest luxury is being free.”

Luxury Being Free

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“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.”

Company Innovation Billions Luxury Transactions Processing

Author:Gary Hamel

“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”

Thinking Term Powerful Race Class Privilege Gender Invisible Luxury Categories Marginalized

Author:Michael Kimmel

“To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.”