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.

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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.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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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.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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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.
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I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.
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He's (Bruce Sutter) going to be out of action the rest of his career.
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
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I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like Heathers.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.