John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
Tahj Mowry -
The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Iain McGilchrist -
With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
Olga Kurylenko -
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
Ferran Adria
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
Tahar Rahim -
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
Gary Oldman -
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
Naomie Harris -
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl -
People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
Barry Ritholtz -
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
Salman Rushdie -
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. Lawrence
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When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.
Steve Diggle Buzzcocks -
I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
Adora Svitak -
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
Lady Gaga -
When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.
Daniel Cormier -
I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it; I pray about it or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it and get it off of me and move on.
Monica -
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith