John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age - after a matter of ten or fifteen years - they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.

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• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

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• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
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• By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
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• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.

  

  Jacob Batalon
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• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
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• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Fashion anticipates.

  

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• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
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• I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

  

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• I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.

  

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• It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

  

  Lillian Russell
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• Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age - after a matter of ten or fifteen years - they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.

  

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