John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
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Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.
