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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Extravagance Necessity Something Spirit Thinks Your

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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

~Carine Roitfeld

Topics: About Bit Everyone Extravagance Fashion Needs

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I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

~Carolina Herrera

Topics: Clothes Extravagance Flashy Fussy Major Nothing Prefer Simple Skirt Sleeves Something Too

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Avarice Extravagance More Ruined Souls Than

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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

~Christian Louboutin

Topics: Adore Complete Example Extravagance Far For Example Gardens Hate Heels High High Heels Human Idea Invention Like Natural Nature Prefer See Sophisticated Touch Useful Useless Wild

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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Been Better Bred Brought Depression Does Else Extravagance Great Great Depression Greedy Hard Important Knowing Life Live Make Me Means Money More Necessities Out Parents Save Share Some Survived Than Tomorrow Up Within Work Work Hard You Dna

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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

~Ellen Wilkinson

Topics: Against Could Extravagance Fitted Illness Inefficiency Mother Pay Poverty Protest Sick Treatment Waste Who

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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: About Extravagance Life Money Myself Only Other Spend Than

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