John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.John Kenneth Galbraith
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
Tamron Hall -
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
Barbara Demick -
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown -
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern -
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
Fatima Siad -
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.
J. B. Smoove -
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester -
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
Adam Cohen -
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
Natalie MacMaster
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The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
J. G. Ballard -
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
Damon Hill -
If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
Mahershala Ali -
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E. W. Howe -
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden -
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
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The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
Jean-Paul Sartre -
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
David Henrie -
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Mason Cooley -
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith