John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Want
  • Project

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • She
  • Think
  • Funny

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Technology

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Hatred
  • Israel
  • Decade

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mistake

• I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Team

• In Greece much has been accomplished because of the common effort of all. But still much remains to be done in order to deal with our national issues, to overcome the multifaceted crisis of today, and to safeguard the place that belongs to us . . .

  

  Constantine Karamanlis
  • Done
  • Today
  • Effort

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Important