John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

My major ambition is just to stay relevant.

Everybody wants to see a film made on them... But it's not like I will die of hunger if it's not made.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

I don't think stardom will ever go to my head.

Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big.

I'm not into fame and ego.

I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe I wanted to be a writer... I've always loved to write, that form of expression.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.