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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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
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The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.
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The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
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If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
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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.
