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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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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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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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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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 love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
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I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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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 think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
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It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.
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I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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People are always asking me when? when? I say to them 'You tell me.
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My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
