John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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People work hard.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people.
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People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
