John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
Valerie Harper -
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
Pat Robertson -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba -
The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
Ted Yoho -
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
Walter Cronkite -
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
Najib Razak -
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
Kate Winslet -
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson -
Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
Hannah Storm
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The question is-what is the question?
John Archibald Wheeler -
If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
Andrew Solomon -
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause
Hillary Clinton -
Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
Ken Liu -
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
John Kenneth Galbraith