"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations."

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Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

Alva Myrdal

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Men Quotes

“Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.”

Source : "Duran Duran's Simon LeBon: 'We Were Part of the Record Industry's Demise. It Wasn't a Great Experience.'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 23, 2010.
“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.”

Source : Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.”
“Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.”
“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”
“...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it tends to pull them in. You have to listen a little more attentively. High frequency instruments hit you so hard, after a while the ear has a tendency to want to shut down. And that's what happens. I've been able to observe very carefully how people tend to get very tired of listening to high frequencies a lot.”
“I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.”
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

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