John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

He enlarged perceptibly the scope for debate, liberalized appreciably the intellectual and cultural life of the country and proclaimed the obvious truth that, after an atomic exchange, little would distinguish the Communist ashes from the capitalist ashes.

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
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• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
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• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

  

  Kate Williams
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• I've been loving music all my life.

  

  Randy Savage
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• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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• I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
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• My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  

  Lisa Jakub
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• We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
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• There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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• He enlarged perceptibly the scope for debate, liberalized appreciably the intellectual and cultural life of the country and proclaimed the obvious truth that, after an atomic exchange, little would distinguish the Communist ashes from the capitalist ashes.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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