Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Marilyn vos Savant

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• Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Day
  • Never
  • Thought

• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blame

• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • You
  • Sexy

• When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Working
  • Research

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • High

• The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Sick
  • Achievement
  • Funeral

• I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Problems

• The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Me

• If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Art
  • Experience

• I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Bad
  • Lost
  • Sorry

• Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Sacrifice

• If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Live

• Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

  

  Anthony Doerr

• The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Working
  • Secret
  • Planning

• I left my life behind but I ain’t got time to look back on.

  

  X Ambassadors
  • Life
  • Time
  • Left

• I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Cinema
  • Explain
  • Incarnating

• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Children
  • School
  • Soul

• Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant