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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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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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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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
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And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
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Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.
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I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.
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I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
