America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country’s redemptive role in creating international order.
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.
People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I’m not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.
I wouldn’t deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.
We’ve cut back dramatically. I mean we never go out to dinner unless we go to somebody’s house. We never go to restaurants. That’s too extravagant.
I’m not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
I don’t spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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