"I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman."
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"Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old."
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"I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes"
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"People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?"
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"Some things look better inside of the store."
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"Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to."
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"There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list."
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"Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping."
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"When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping."
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"The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping."
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"No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost."
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"When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants."
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"I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me."
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"When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'"
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"Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way."
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"This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage."
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"There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards."
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"But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's."
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"A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need."
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"Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping."
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