John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
Quotes to Explore
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
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People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
