John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
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I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I just want to be proud of my work.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.
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The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
