John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Money
  • Actor
  • Nobody

• I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Since

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Done
  • Easy

• I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Color
  • Frustration

• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Moment

• I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Work
  • Together
  • Trust

• At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • People
  • School
  • Age

• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Tired
  • Boredom

• The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Space
  • Childhood
  • Rich

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Life
  • Love
  • Simple

• The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Visit
  • Adventurer
  • Chile

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do I abhor?' Intellectuals can also answer the question of 'What flag do I wave?' without having to answer the question of 'What flag do I burn.'

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May

• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  

  Anatoly Berezovoy
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Kind

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Truth

• In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Reason
  • Cut
  • Phrase

• There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith