And the truth is that there are very different kinds of luxury, and there's luxury that is relative for people that don't have that much.

You like expensive things.

They are not luxuries.

The Biology of Luxury

What do you mean, luxury?

Advertisements urge us to buy luxuries.

That nasty boyfriend of yours has got expensive tastes.

Hello, Louis. How extravagant you are, throwing away women.

Suites are for expense accounts. You're being extravagant.

I enjoy one great luxury... being left alone.

This diamond ring is too extravagant for me.

And that's a new way of looking at luxury goods.

I think so. We haven't done anything very extravagant yet.

I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury.

Feelings are a luxury few women indulge in.

All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce.

Laptops are a luxury it's like giving them iPods. No.

An open fire while you bathe. What luxury!

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

Those fees aren't bad, they're okay, but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people.

It's a great spot for gals who know how!

It was the 'El Dorado', splendor of a wild nobility of the tropics

Why? While marketing has contributed to the rise, the luxury market s robust growth is actually rooted in biology.

At the same time, fortunes are being wasted on armaments, arms races or luxuries.

The theatre requires time, and for me time is often a luxury.

And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries.

Having a telephone in my country was a huge luxury.

It's a difficult and expensive commodity, until now.

And be kept in luxury by London's most celebrated surgeon.

China is soon to pass the U.S. as the number one market for luxury brands that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere.

Some Governments maintained that human rights were a luxury that only wealthy countries could afford.

Tuning out is a luxury only the most privileged viewers can afford.

It's a luxury solution for us who can afford it, if you want to afford it.

So once you don't need to move, you don't need the luxury of that brain.

Even though the Internet is very expensive all over Africa, there are Internet cafes everywhere.

The culture of peace is no longer a political luxury it has become a political necessity.

You see them in the best hotels every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money.

She's always able to make it. No luxuries and no frills, as she says.

We have codes and standards that tell us that the lights should be so much lux and of great uniformity.

For example, in trade policy, when a low uniform tariff rate is applied to all products, any extra amount spent on luxury goods deprives the industrial sector of scarce foreign exchange.

These are the spaces that are not just luxurious spaces for some of us, but are important for everybody in this world.

It's more to say that mind training matters. That this is not just a luxury.

Without peace and security, all the initiatives aimed at spreading a culture of peace would be mere intellectual luxury.

Meat, for years the center of the American meal, became a sparingly apportioned luxury.

The spontaneity music has excludes it as a luxury item and makes it a patrimony of society.