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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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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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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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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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
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'Cause what she's doin' now is tearin' me apart,Fillin' up my mind and emptyin' my heart.I can hear her call each time the cold wind blows,And I wonder if she knows...what she's doin' now.
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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
