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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Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
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I read 'Backstage' a lot when I first was unleashed into the world from drama school. And what was great about it was that if I was using it or not, it was just nice to know what was happening in my community.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
