John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoliticsPeopleThinkMoreReason

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Joan Jett

WorldPlayRockUpRollGrew

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Jerry Saltz

GoodPeopleRevolutionPresentBad

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

DeathPeopleMeStandSeriouslyOut

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Jean Toomer

LifeMenWishesRunTryNecessity

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

John W. Snow

ProblemTryingSecuritySeriousLike

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

Tony Iommi

SurprisePlaceKnowSaidNiceNow

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

LifeSexEveryoneSexualityDefine

I'm one of the most well-rounded fighters out there.

Luke Rockhold

OutWell-RoundedMostFighters

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Jonathan Nolan

GoodMindHumanStorageFragile

I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

Dianne Reeves

CareAlwaysInstrumentTaken

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

MyselfWritingThinkDoingHappens

I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills... I was not good at it.

Brant Daugherty

GoodTimeExperienceSchoolLong

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