John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I appreciate my international fans all over the world.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
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I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
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[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
