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.
Manmohan Singh
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri
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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.
Ted Nugent
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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.
Randall Terry
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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.
Lajos Kossuth
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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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.'
Nathan Fillion
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
Gavin O'Connor
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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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
Caitriona Balfe
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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.
Nancy Gibbs
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
Zach Braff
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Washed Out
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
Rand Paul
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
Yair Lapid
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
Oscar Nunez
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Taylor Momsen
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Keith Carradine
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
Diana Ross
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It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
Viola Davis
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith