John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Quotes to Explore
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.
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I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance.
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Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
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I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
