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.Alva Myrdal
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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.
Lance Burton -
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
Damon Lindelof -
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.
Kate O'Mara -
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.
Gary North -
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
Sally Kellerman -
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
Zach Braff
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Larry Flynt -
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
Rachel Bilson -
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman -
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
Daniel Boulud
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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.
Hannah Storm -
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.
Oscar Peterson -
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.
Dan Phillips -
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Nancy Gibbs -
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Mara Liasson
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
Aaron Brown -
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
Kathryn Stockett -
What people think of you doesn't matter, because I believe anything's possible. No one's going to convince me I'm not capable of living up to my full potential, because I've obsessed over that idea. The universe wants me to be great for me.
Bibi Bourelly -
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).
Shirley Chisholm -
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
Carol Moseley Braun -
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.
Alva Myrdal