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
  • Me
  • Know

• 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

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• 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

• And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Secretary of state
  • Theft
  • Intellectual Property

• We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Amazing

• We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Disagree

• It's unbelievable what's happened in New England, ... We have the best fans there. Every place we've been playing has been selling out. It wasn't that long ago that we'd been playing to 50 people in Boston, and we just headlined a 7,000-seat arena and sold it out. 9

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Fans
  • Happened
  • Arena

• 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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