Alva Myrdal Quotes
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.
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War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)
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I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.
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I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?
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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
