John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.
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When I'm in Paris, my favorite market is the Marche Raspail on the Left Bank.
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Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
