John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Proud
  • Army
  • Commissioned

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Mean
  • Talk
  • Phone

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Simple

• People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mind
  • Running

• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Team

• Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Home
  • High

• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• British people are surprised that I'm British!

  

  David Harewood
  • People

• I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Opportunity
  • Practice
  • Daily

• By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Age
  • Small
  • Romantic