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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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
Natalie Imbruglia
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Federica Montseny
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Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
E. F. Schumacher
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
Babyface
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Alan Paton
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“People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot of time thinking about that. It's harder to get by when getting by is all there is.”
C Robert Cargill
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However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
