John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
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I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
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I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean.
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Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, 'Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.'
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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White America is an endangered species. By 2020, whites over 65 will out-number those 17 and under. Deaths will exceed births. The white population will begin to shrink and, should present birth rates persist, slowly disappear.
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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
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For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
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You know, I am still doing solo stuff and will continue always as well as other people in the band. We know that everybody has their own thing so we like to leave that door for everyone.
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Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
