John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
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To be an artist, you look, you perceive, you recognize what is going through your mind. And it is not ideas. Everything you feel and everything you see and everything that your whole life goes through your mind, you know. But you have to recognize it and go with it and really feel it.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
