Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Culture follows power.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
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I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.” A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.
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I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
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