John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I don't do negative things.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
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When you're in your young 20s, you know you can play good golf into your mid-40s. That's a lot of time to get better each and every year and achieve your goals. As long as you know you're making strides along the way, you'll get there eventually.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
