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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

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Martin Compston Scottish actor
An ornate carved pool table. With travelling, I’ve not had a game on it in two years.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2022 source ↗

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Question Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? Relationships
My father would make sure that I knew what it meant. Just to give you an example, I started bodybuilding with the age of 15, and my father would say, why are you lifting these dumbbells and barbells? Don't you think it would be better to just go out and chop some wood and shovel some coal for some poor people that don't have anyone? Therefore you would get muscles. But at the same time, you're doing something useful. You're doing something for somebody rather than just for yourself and looking in a mirror at yourself and stuff like that. So he would make sure that you knew what being useful meant.
Recorded A Martínez, Morning Edition, NPR, 6 October 2023 source ↗

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