John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
Zooey Deschanel -
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
Kate Bosworth -
Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
Kate Forsyth
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
Banks -
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
Jack Markell -
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
Val Kilmer -
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
Natalie Merchant -
'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
T. B. Joshua -
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Colin Powell -
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
Auguste Comte -
Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
Emma Roberts -
It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
Dylan Sprouse -
Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.
Joe Russo
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I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
David O. Russell -
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Tom Stoppard -
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.
Gautama Buddha -
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
Brad Pitt -
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Isaac Watts -
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
John Kenneth Galbraith