John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Joanna Scott

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Most of the suits I try to wear are bespoke.

Jidenna

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

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If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.

John M. Grunsfeld

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George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

Max Greenfield

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Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

Michael Flatley

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

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As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

Simon Mainwaring

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I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Trevor Rabin

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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Liz Phair

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I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

Julia Garner

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