John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.
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I love to create looks. It's just like you're a different character every day.
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The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.
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We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
