John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
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Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
