John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.
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It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.
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Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
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You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
