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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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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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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Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
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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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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
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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.
