John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Pamela Meyer -
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.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Magic Johnson
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz -
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.
Ian Frazier -
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%.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
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.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
Karen Armstrong -
Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
Leymah Gbowee -
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.
Anthony Powell -
When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
Labrinth LSD -
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
I love me some 'Family Guy.'
Andy Grammer
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If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
Bill Vaughan -
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
William Holmes McGuffey -
Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
Kris Gopalakrishnan -
I relate to women and children in women's shelters on a personal level because I've been there myself.
Nia Sanchez -
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
John Kenneth Galbraith