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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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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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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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.
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When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.
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However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
