John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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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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If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.
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I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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The political dismemberment of these once British colonies from the parent island, though involving a valuable principle, and many possible results, would scarcely merit a yearly commemoration, even in this country, had it not been accompanied by other occurrences more novel, and far more important.
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I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
