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Gunnar Myrdal Quotes

America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people.

Gunnar Myrdal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: swedish
Birth: December 6, 1898 - May 17, 1987

Topics

Attitude Health People Rich America

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

Ann Voskamp

Good Perspective Detail Writing You

Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it.

Steven Soderbergh

Me Weather Feel Upset Netflix Just

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Simon Schama

Time Research World Deep Thought

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

Maryanne Wolf

Children Parents Video Games Look

For me, blogging is just like talking.

Jared Polis

Me Talking Just Like Blogging

I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

Demetrious Johnson

Home Time Together School Mom Game

I love Europe even though I'm based in the U.S.

Chiara Ferragni

Love Europe Even Though Based

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

Constance Zimmer

People Hurt Because Off Been Much

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Chrysippus

Philosophy Multitude Should Followed

My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.

Bobby Moynihan

You Back Go Sitting First Him

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

January Beginning World Intelligent

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Change Responsibility Politics Ethics