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 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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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.
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By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.
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Void is contract made in fear.
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Burn Notice' is a show that definitely has some levity to it and it's a fun show, but it's also, you fully believe, you're fully invested that Michael Westen does this stuff. You want Michael Westen on your team.
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
