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Alva Myrdal Quotes

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Victory Worth Illusion Price

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

Coffee Best Easy Quit Up Used

Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United States military history? Why, that's like the Three Stooges doing a Holocaust movie. Or Barney doing 'Hamlet'.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

History Day Doing Holocaust Three

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Michael Flatley

Walk Go Schedule Outside Years Sure

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Good Age Song Whatever Good Song

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Robert B. Laughlin

Curiosity Computers Interesting Never

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.

Past Cake Amazing Doing You Herbs

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

New York City Law Lawyer New Degree

Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

Funny People Brain Story Want True

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

People Living Relationships Emotional

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

Women Service Perfection Victory Us

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

Fence Never Over Seen Screaming Few

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

Character Great Time Think Reality

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