Bjorn Ulvaeus quote: "Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes."

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amaz...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enorm...
BJORN ULVAEUS

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural ha...
BJORN ULVAEUS

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
BJORN ULVAEUS

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they ar...
BJORN ULVAEUS

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
BJORN ULVAEUS

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, ...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human right...
BJORN ULVAEUS

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that h...
BJORN ULVAEUS

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think ...
BJORN ULVAEUS

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because the...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
BJORN ULVAEUS

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it&...
BJORN ULVAEUS

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happine...
BJORN ULVAEUS

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Po...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You...
BJORN ULVAEUS

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concer...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.
BJORN ULVAEUS

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural th...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of cr...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ...
BJORN ULVAEUS

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.
BJORN ULVAEUS

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is tod...
BJORN ULVAEUS

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I ...
BJORN ULVAEUS

There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen t...
BJORN ULVAEUS

In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around...
BJORN ULVAEUS

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for t...
BJORN ULVAEUS

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage i...
BJORN ULVAEUS

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember ...
BJORN ULVAEUS

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase w...
BJORN BAYLEY

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the ...
BJORN LOMBORG

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to b...
BJORN LOMBORG

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronut...
BJORN LOMBORG

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the...
BJORN LOMBORG

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be mo...
BJORN LOMBORG

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser...
BJORN LOMBORG

In the same way, we have to investigate the solar mechanism, but right now, the IPC claims that it's...
BJORN LOMBORG

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to ...
BJORN LOMBORG

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that th...
BJORN LOMBORG

I really have to stress, I don't have a positive view. I'm not here to cheer people up. If the botto...
BJORN LOMBORG

I certainly worry and feel uncomfortable that people I have very little in common with politically w...
BJORN LOMBORG

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they'r...
BJORN LOMBORG

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have...
BJORN LOMBORG

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they did...
BJORN LOMBORG

We've seen ... substantial occupancy increases, which cause developers, lenders and others to have c...
BJORN HANSON

Hotel buyers have to be much smarter now than they did a year or two ago.
BJORN HANSON

The economics are extremely compelling. It is good for every reason we can think of.
BJORN HANSON

People see value in having these intensive services. If you are flying in and get home late, they wa...
BJORN HANSON

Although the maintenance and general condition of U.S. hotels is the best it has ever been, the indu...
BJORN HANSON

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON

Everyone is asking for favors, for special consideration,
BJORN HANSON

What will happen, daily, is that the general manager or the director of sales or the representative ...
BJORN HANSON

[But it doesn't end there.] Guests will pay more for food and beverage and the use of fitness facili...
BJORN HANSON

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial securit...
BJORN BORG

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
BJORN BORG

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
BJORN BORG

When John McEnroe called me several times and wondered what I was doing, I guess I woke up.
BJORN BORG

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sa...
BJORN LOMBORG

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on ea...
BJORN LOMBORG

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants th...
BJORN LOMBORG

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORG

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally ...
BJORN LOMBORG

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until th...
BJORN BORG

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more ...
BJORN BORG

Roger Federer is stylish.
BJORN BORG

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I m...
BJORN BORG

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial sec...
BJORN BORG

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre se...
BJORN LOMBORG

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the...
BJORN LOMBORG

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a ce...
BJORN LOMBORG

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser...
BJORN LOMBORG

I looked at a plaque in the clubhouse earlier in the week and I saw who shot 63 here.
THOMAS BJORN

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but inste...
BJORN LOMBORG

Let's put a lid on it. My results this year have shown I'm way beyond it. I've left those things beh...
THOMAS BJORN

He's not a one-major guy, he's a 10-major guy. He's going to go on now and contend for majors as he'...
THOMAS BJORN

We all saw how important Tiger was for the game on Friday,
THOMAS BJORN

It isn't a fit nickname. It is, in a way. He's an easy guy. He goes with the flow. But he's a very p...
THOMAS BJORN

It's not a great slot, but what can you do? It's difficult at this time of year with so much going o...
THOMAS BJORN

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the lon...
BJORN LOMBORG

Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happe...
BJORN LOMBORG

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it ...
BJORN LOMBORG

I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that th...
BJORN LOMBORG

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want...
BJORN LOMBORG

1998 is turning out to be a transition year for the lodging industry, ... After seven consecutive ye...
BJORN HANSON

There are several reasons why these data are not available. In many parts of the world there are sim...
BJORN HANSON

[But will such balancing acts work? Analysts are doubtful.] No one is doing a great job, ... It's ve...
BJORN HANSON

There are some cities where there are still extraordinary discounts,
BJORN HANSON

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems...
BJORN LOMBORG

We are in the early days of what could turn into a major humanitarian catastrophe. The alarm has bee...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

But clearly McEnroe convinced me.
BJORN BORG

After great consideration and reasoning, I have decided that I will never sell my Wimbledon trophies...
BJORN BORG

I now realize how closely connected they are to my success as Wimbledon's winner in 1976-1980 and th...
BJORN BORG

Obviously, it is not easy to part with the trophies that symbolize all the tremendous effort, both p...
BJORN BORG

However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me and now believe t...
BJORN BORG

Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge t...
BJORN BORG

I hope people will enjoy watching us because we are definitely coming to Dubai to communicate our ow...
BJORN BORG

I don't know what we are going to do to find more speed. If I try to drive the car faster, I end up ...
BJORN WIRDHEIM

Montreal is the only track that we visit this year that I have raced on before,
BJORN WIRDHEIM

I was there last year with Jaguar for the Formula One race, and I did the Friday practice.
BJORN WIRDHEIM

Large deals just aren't getting done. We continue to see smaller deals, but companies are still hesi...
BJORN TURNQUIST

Depressed valuations may help fuel acquisitions in specialty finance and asset management and broker...
BJORN TURNQUIST

M&A in insurance was bleak this quarter. Equity market jitters combined with accounting and reserve ...
BJORN TURNQUIST

There's uncertainty within the insurance industry, as companies are currently unwilling to take the ...
BJORN TURNQUIST

We live in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable growth issues.
BJORN STIGSON

Business has a key role to play. Here we are. It is up to us to create a sustainable path in the wor...
BJORN STIGSON

I grew up watching and admiring Agassi. He is a legend. So this definitely is the biggest win of my ...
BJORN PHAU

The total number of people in need of food assistance will be just below 10 million for 2006.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

Already we have an emerging crisis in the pastoral regions of Ethiopia with about 1.7 million people...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

This is the largest non-food appeal since the drought emergency of 2003 in Ethiopia.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

As ever, women and children will bear the brunt of this disaster.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

The alarm has been raised in time but if we don't get the support we need, the results could be cata...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

Without urgent help the drought could spiral. Urgent emergency intervention in the form of food, wat...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more l...
BJORN LOMBORG

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is co...
BJORN LOMBORG

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they&#...
BJORN LOMBORG

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense....
BJORN LOMBORG

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they did...
BJORN LOMBORG

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first rac...
BJORN BORG

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures...
BJORN LOMBORG

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a pro...
BJORN LOMBORG

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have ...
BJORN LOMBORG

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase th...
BJORN LOMBORG

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a co...
BJORN LOMBORG

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
BJORN LOMBORG

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your ...
BJORN LOMBORG

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is righ...
BJORN LOMBORG

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
BJORN BORG

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants a...
BJORN BORG

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.
BJORN BORG

I enjoy fashion.
BJORN BORG

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story fr...
BJORN BORG

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on cl...
BJORN BORG

I just hated to lose.
BJORN BORG

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be w...
BJORN BORG

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk a...
BJORN BORG

I wanted to win, even in practice.
BJORN BORG

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
BJORN BORG

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If...
BJORN BORG

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt...
BJORN SHEN

I think nothing is inherent.
BJORN G. AMELAN

There's a multitude of things happening on stage. It's OK not so see everything. People should treat...
BJORN G. AMELAN

So it's a positive symbol of beauty.
BJORN G. AMELAN

Dance is powerful because it's a visual art form that's entirely body-based. A body - it's something...
BJORN G. AMELAN

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

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Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

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