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.
Dan Deacon -
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.
Mac DeMarco -
I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
Maelle Gavet -
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
Barry Sonnenfeld -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
Dan Jenkins
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson -
I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
La India -
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
Orhan Pamuk -
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.
Victoria Moran -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean.
Zach Galifianakis -
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.'
Warren Farrell -
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
Octavia E. Butler -
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.
Pat Buchanan -
No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.
Bertrand Russell -
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
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In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.
Barack Obama -
The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
Carolyn Maloney -
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
Jack Valenti -
To me, success is seeing that justice is done.
John Doar -
The erotic element is life, but doesn't have to absorb you, it doesn't have to be a naughty word. It's the love of life in many ways.
Martha Graham -
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith