John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I always like and appreciate the support for the fans; I am very grateful to everyone who supports me.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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So if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does!
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times. SeattlePi.com (May 17, 2002).
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The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!
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In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.
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Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.
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The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
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I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
