John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
Dan Marino -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice -
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler -
You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
Quavo Migos -
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Sam Rayburn
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I got a big mouth.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan -
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde -
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
Edie Falco -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Earl Browder -
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
Edmund Phelps -
People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
Sam Smith -
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
Vince McMahon -
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing -
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
Kate Bernheimer
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
Tahyna Tozzi -
I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
Mary Steenburgen -
I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.
Ian Astbury The Cult -
I am going to be doing some practicing on Thursday and Friday and we run some qualifying heats on Saturday, ... I've wanted to do this for a while. I wanted to have a good car when we did it. I think we've got a good car.
Dick Trickle -
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
Tahl Raz -
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
John Kenneth Galbraith