John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that nothing must be suffered to interfere with them. I intend to make such arrangements in town as will secure me a couple of hours daily (with very few exceptions) for my studies.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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I'm very passionate.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
