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"At home, (we play) a lot of Disney stuff -- Raven, High School Musical soundtrack. My kids love Beyonce, but there are a few songs I can`t let them listen to -- they`re so materialistic! They`re all about chinchilla coats and BBS Slims (cell phone). I`d rather have them listening to a protest song!"

- Chris Rock

"I`m a Taurean, so I`m very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years I`ve spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun. And, yes, if it all ended tomorrow and I could never afford another Gucci bag, then I think it`s safe to say that I`ve got enough to be going on with."

- Martine McCutcheon

I`m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

- Victoria Beckham

Somebody said to me, (The Beatles) were anti-materialistic.` That`s a huge myth. (John Lennon) and I literally used to sit down and say, `Now, let`s write a swimming pool.`

- Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me, `But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.` That`s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, `Now, let`s write a swimming pool.`

- Paul McCartney

As human beings, we`re very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

- Smokey Robinson

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

- Mary McCarthy

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood`s box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

- Michael Medved

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

- Patti Smith

I`m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

- Victoria Beckham

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

- Linus Torvalds

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

- Amy Cooper

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

- Andreas Capellanus

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

- Andreas Capellanus

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

- Andreas Capellanus

to replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.

- Andy Frye

Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts

- Ayn Rand
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