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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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
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Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
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Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
