John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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In stages, the impossible becomes possible.
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The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
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A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
