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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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 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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Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
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I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.
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When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.
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Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I'm not a cry baby.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
