"In the Chinese schools, they are telling the children not to be confrontational, not to live extravagantly," Mr. Zhang said.
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While he did not live extravagantly — rent at his condo this year was about $1,500 a month — he never seemed in need of funds.
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Tiffany Haddish burst onto the scene thanks to her role in the movie "Girls Trip," but despite her newfound fame, she refuses to live extravagantly.
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I've been fortunate enough to have more than enough for retirement; we don't live extravagantly, but we are not lacking for anything that we want and we do have a fairly substantial amount of assets.
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Meanwhile, prosecutors said in their filing Wednesday, Madoff live extravagantly, using investor money to buy a $4.4 million Manhattan home, fund a $6.5 million loan for a home in Nantucket and to finance two yachts worth $11.5 million and the salaries of housekeepers and a personal boat captain.
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He rejected German racial supremacy and instead saw the Norwegian race as the progenitor of Northern Europe, tracing his own family tree in his spare time. Party members did not receive preferential treatment, though Quisling did not himself share in the wartime hardships of his fellow Norwegians. Nevertheless, many gifts went unused and he did not live extravagantly.
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One day, he goes to the hospital after experiencing pain in his stomach and is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. While shocked by the news, he eventually decides to live his life fully. He quits his job, withdraws all his life savings, books a hotel suite and decides to live extravagantly for the remaining three months. However, Sa-rang, who still likes him a lot, is not giving up on him yet.
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She also drank heavily, and both she and her husband participated in extramarital affairs. Barbara gave birth to a son, Antony Baekeland, in August 1946. From the summer of 1954 onward, with Antony aged eight, the Baekeland family led a nomadic seasonal existence, maintaining their home in New York while being mainly based in Europe. Renting houses and villas in London, Paris, Zermatt, Cap d'Antibes, and many parts of Italy, Barbara and Brooks continued to live extravagantly, entertain guests, and have affairs.
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However, in 1669, a James Stuart, or Don Giacopo Stuardo, appears in Naples and on 19 February, marries a Donna Theresa Corona, daughter of, Signor Francesco Corona, and Lady Anuccia de Anicis of the Orisini branch, in the chapel of S. Aspremo in the cathedral of Naples. She receives a dowry of 200 doppies. However, when Jacopo is heard to talking of his high birth and seen to live extravagantly, the suspicions of the viceroy of Naples are raised. He orders Stuart's arrest and imprisonment in San Elmo castle, before he eventually he is transferred to the castle of Gaetà.
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Gordon's success later led him to run all of Rothstein's bootlegging on most of the east coast, specifically New York and New Jersey, and importing large amounts of Canadian whisky over the Canada–United States border. Gordon, now earning an estimated $2 million a year, began buying numerous breweries and distilleries as well as owning several speakeasies. Gordon began to be known to live extravagantly, traveling in limousines and living in prominent Manhattan hotel suites, as well as owning mansions built for him in New York and Philadelphia. Rothstein died in 1928 and Gordon's position began to decline.
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According to her former daughter in law, Lilliana, one of Nexhmije Hoxha's hobbies was viewing the video of Mehmet Shehu, once Prime Minister, being tortured before he either committed suicide or was murdered on the orders of Enver Hoxha. She lived for many years with her husband in the section of Tirana known as the Bllok, reserved for the ruling elite. Being at the apex of the party elite, they had access to foreign goods not available to ordinary Albanians and reportedly owned 25 fridges and televisions. However, Nexhmije herself maintained she did not live extravagantly and never had done, emphasizing the prosaic nature of her marriage ceremony in 1945, which did not include a dress, a reception or a honeymoon.
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His reputation was established, and he moved to a studio in Old Bond Street. In 1794 he became a full member of the Royal Academy.Lawrence is shown second from left seated (number 6) in Henry Singleton's The Royal Academicians in General Assembly, 1795 Although commissions were pouring in, Lawrence was in financial difficulties. His debts would stay with him for the rest of life: he narrowly avoided bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by wealthy sitters and friends, and died insolvent. Biographers have never been able to discover the source of his debts; he was a prodigiously hard worker (once referring in a letter to his portrait painting as "mill-horse business")Levey 2005: 137 and did not appear to live extravagantly.
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In London Jenny, an aspiring ballet dancer, meets an aide to the Duke of Wuerttemberg who is in Britain for a marriage alliance and financial treaty to supply troops to Britain for the war against Napoleon. After being discovered by an Italian impresario she goes to Venice to be trained as a great dancer. The visiting Duke of Wuerttemberg becomes fascinated with her and engages her to perform at the state operate house in his capital of Stuttgart, hoping also to make her his mistress. The British authorities encourage Jenny to go to Stuttgart and try to live extravagantly at the Duke's expense in the hope that a shortage of funds with compel him to renew his treaty against Napoleon.
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