John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • World
  • Light

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Change
  • inspirational

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Ever

• I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Style

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.

  

  Jay Ryan

• You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Believe

• In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • DIsliked

• It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Believe