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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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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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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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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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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Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
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Be kind today....to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.
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If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
