John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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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.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
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Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.
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My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
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I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
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I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.