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Eyvind Johnson Quotes

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swedish
Birth: July 29, 1900 - August 25, 1976

Topics

Hope Justice Believe Injustice Goal

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

Night Never Write Show Different

As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.

Stephen M. Ross

Great Responsibility Money City You

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Building Always Out Determined Make

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Smokey Robinson

Money Diamonds Human Materialistic

When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.

Creative People Think Doors You

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

Girl Man School Fun People Me

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

Life Love Compromise Want Personal

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Whole Sights Genre Sounds Them

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

Family Mother Value Me Think My Own

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

Music Words Guitar You Sometimes

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

Car Walk Man Drive You Big

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Writing Book First Years Out Twenty

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