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.
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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.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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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.
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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.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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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.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
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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.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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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.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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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.
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And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.
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I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
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I think I'm highly loveable.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
