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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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
