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Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.
I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.
Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm.
I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.
I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.
As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change.
Luxury stores are such a difficult thing because, ultimately, their purpose is to sell, but I do think you can get more out of a store.
This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.
As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and high-low.
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.
[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.
The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world.
I just knew that there was a gap in the market for easy, comfortable garments that are neither luxury nor pret, but somewhere in between.
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.
I think my style is definitely urban chic. I love mixing street style with the high-end luxury brands, like Gucci, for example. Quite fun.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network execs to do my art.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.