John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
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When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
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My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
