John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.
Venus Williams
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
Victor LaValle
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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.
Samantha Cameron
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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.
Garth Nix
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Sam Barry
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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.'
Os Guinness
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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?
Harold Pinter
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade
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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.
D. B. Sweeney
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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.
Barbara Olson
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
Aaron Peirsol
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'Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost,' said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.'Pooh!' he whispered.'Yes, Piglet?''Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'
A. A. Milne
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I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.
Diego Della Valle
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
Jack Valenti
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I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.
Matt Groening
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However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
