Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic. – Rachel True
‘Shabiha’ is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family’s operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. – Richard Engel
It’s wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet. – Raul Ruiz
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. – Shakira
India now has serious fashion consumers who do not think twice before splurging on an expensive luxury product. – Priya Sachdev
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. – Robert MacNeil
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. – Peter Criss
I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don’t have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury. – Pierre Dukan
If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don’t belong in the real world. – Ruud van Nistelrooy
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. – Shakira
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. – Walter Bagehot
I did always say I wanted to infiltrate from within. That was always my reasoning behind going into partnership with a luxury group that uses a lot of leather in their products. – Stella McCartney
There’s nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It’s crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God. – Terri Blackstock
I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don’t charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. – William Allen White
I just realized quite early on that I’m not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don’t write unless I really feel I need to, and that’s a luxury. – Zadie Smith
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets. – Wang Jianlin
I think that anyone who’s pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It’s a luxury. – Twyla Tharp
I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren’t just about keeping our job and making a buck – important though those things are. Arts programming isn’t some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury. – Simon Schama
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market. – Sylvia Earle
In Kenya, where there isn’t the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans. – Tristram Stuart
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region. – Susan Rice