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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.


John Kenneth Galbraith

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LANCE GALBRAITH Obviously, everyone would like to see a fight pretty much every night, but I've got more responsibil...
LANCE GALBRAITH Pretty much, you've got to be able to play now to succeed in this game. There's not that one-dimensi...
LANCE GALBRAITH I didn't want to step on anybody's toes (when I first came here), but now I'm comfortable.
LANCE GALBRAITH I play with great players. I just keep going to the net and (my teammates) will find me. Sometimes i...
LANCE GALBRAITH We've been on a good roll, but in the third periods of most of our games, we've kind of let up (late...
LANCE GALBRAITH He's a big goalie, and it's tough to find empty spots on him. It doesn't seem like the other teams a...
LANCE GALBRAITH I certainly don't see any easy way out of this mess.
PETER GALBRAITH ... cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.
ROBERT GALBRAITH For this to happen today, of all days! It felt like a wink from God.
ROBERT GALBRAITH She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an...
ROBERT GALBRAITH Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.
ROBERT GALBRAITH Are you all right, Robin?'

'Yes, I promise I am.' She hesitated, then said, almost defian...
ROBERT GALBRAITH Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
J. WILLIAM GALBRAITH The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
J. K. GALBRAITH The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in ...
EVAN G. GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH Life is surreal and beautiful.
KENNETH BRANAGH I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
KENNETH BRANAGH Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'...
KENNETH BRANAGH My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simp...
KENNETH BRANAGH So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation tea...
KENNETH BRANAGH In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
KENNETH BRANAGH The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselve...
KENNETH BRANAGH I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Tho...
KENNETH BRANAGH One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
KENNETH BRANAGH I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
KENNETH BRANAGH You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are...
KENNETH BRANAGH Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
KENNETH BRANAGH Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think t...
KENNETH BRANAGH I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of th...
KENNETH BRANAGH I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be...
KENNETH BRANAGH I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a da...
KENNETH BRANAGH