Alva Myrdal Quotes

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Alva Myrdal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: January 31, 1902 - February 1, 1986

Topics

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I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.

Jo Cox

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I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

Megan Rapinoe

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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

John Stossel

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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Stephen Fry

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See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

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In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she'd be with Dad again.

Clayton M. Christensen

Getting OlderDeathMomBelieveYou

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Pope Paul VI

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When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.

Peter Falk

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Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Nigel Hamilton

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