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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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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You wonderful girl. I’ve missed you so much.” “Well, now that we’re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time we’ll have to hang out!
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When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
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My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
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People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
