Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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I'm very unorganized.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
