"You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void."

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Source : "Pretty vacant" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2006.

David LaChapelle

#Real Quotes #Shopping Quotes #People Quotes

“The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!”
“Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!”
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
“I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.”
“All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.”
“Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.”

Source : Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.198, Hachette UK
“From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.”

Source : Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.
“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

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