Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Marilyn vos Savant

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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Hopes

• I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Decide
  • Month

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Down

• It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Future
  • Very

• There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Grateful

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • You
  • Film

• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • America
  • Blonde

• Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

  

  Ann Richards

• My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Live

• I've always had an aversion to debt.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Real
  • History
  • Opinion

• The right to happiness is fundamental.

  

  Anna Pavlova

• There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out.

  

  John Tiffany

• I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poems were practically the only recourse I had to alleviate that energy and that anxiety. I take no credit for all the poems I’ve written. They were a way of releasing anxiety.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Energy

• Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Depends
  • Hiastory

• Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

  

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