John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.
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The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
