John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.
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The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.
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I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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Just to eat is a gift.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.
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My focus in 2016 will be the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, and as preparation for that, I will try to break the world indoor mile record in Stockholm on February 17.
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A lot of people expected a lot of things and they should. Sexson's probably doing better than what people think. I'm not doing close to what people think. But that's baseball.
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However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
