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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I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.
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I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.
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I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.
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After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.
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I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
