John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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I broke things to get attention.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
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I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
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Preparation is everything.
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It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.
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Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
