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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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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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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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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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've always had an aversion to debt.
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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.
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The right to happiness is fundamental.
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The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
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Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.
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Emotions are the color of the soul.
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Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion...
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She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.
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The motto of my institute has always been, 'If they can see it, they can be it.' And it's literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.
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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.
