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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#drama #everybody #family #gets #giving

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. ↗

— Scott Walker

#attrition #government #i #layoffs #massive

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#cannot #comfortable #his #made #man

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#caustic #man #woman

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know? ↗

— Alan Vega

#cash #dressing #dressing room #great #guys

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#am #annoyed #because #coming #doing

My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#around #because #comfortable #environment #experience

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#complete #harmony #love #love is #pure