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.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
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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.

  

  Kate Hudson
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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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
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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.

  

  Kate Walsh
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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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• I broke things to get attention.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Attention
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• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
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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.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • May
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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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Moral

• Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
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  • Might

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Disability

• The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.

  

  Corey Feldman

• Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
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• Acting is a youthful profession.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

  

  Danny Meyer
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• Preparation is everything.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
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• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
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• Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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