John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Quotes to Explore
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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You never know what the future brings.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.
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The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.
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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
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People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
