John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Quotes to Explore
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.
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I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
