John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
Calvin Harris
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
Barry Sanders
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
Youssou N'Dour
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Natasha Trethewey
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
Paloma Faith
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.
Benny Fine
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My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.
Enda Kenny
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
Pat Buchanan
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
Baruch Spinoza
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I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.
Zach Braff
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But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith