John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Done
  • Medical
  • Surgery

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Well

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Work Hard

• In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Days
  • Continue
  • Heroic

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Book
  • Sea
  • Name

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Rest

• I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

  

  Paul Klee
  • Work
  • Grow
  • Rushed

• Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Wedding

• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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