John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Love
  • Entertainment
  • Attitudes

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • God
  • Fall

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Movie
  • Possibility
  • Rewrite

• You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

  

  Kris Carr
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Masters
  • Phrases
  • Tao

• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Live

• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Faith