John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.
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What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress?
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If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.
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While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
