John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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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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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the financial markets, a trend that I strongly support.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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Nothing beats a great smile.
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When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
