John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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I like to support local record stores.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
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I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.
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I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.
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Basically I made her Sara Pocock listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.
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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
