John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
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You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.
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I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
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Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
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In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
