John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

The hat is the common headgear of the Turkish people, and the government forbids habits to the contrary.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

Culture is more important than politics.

Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.

Hip Hop emerged fearlessly and unappoligeticly reflecting our society.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

One of my proudest moments in life was earning the valedictorian medal in high school. I worked so hard for it!

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.