John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Lunch
  • Now And Then

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
  • Tyranny
  • Oligarchy

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• No damn man kills me and lives.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Kills

• Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Food
  • Single
  • Sports

• If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Same
  • Bigger
  • Skill

• The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Different
  • High
  • Celebrity

• I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Doctor
  • Nutritionist

• You always do that. Make all the questions harder.I make them truer.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Reading
  • College
  • Library

• It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • People

• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Lazy

• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. That's the end of the interview.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Art

• My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.

  

  Alec Berg
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Wife

• We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm quite worried about that. But by the 22nd century, there's no way we'll be on fossil fuels.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • May
  • Question
  • Pain

• No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'

  

  James Wan

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Business
  • Water
  • Flower

• Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith