John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
-
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
-
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
-
Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
-
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
-
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
-
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
-
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
-
I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
-
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
-
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
-
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
-
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
-
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
-
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
-
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
-
When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.
-
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
-
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
-
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
-
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
