John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
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In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
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It's time to close Gitmo.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
