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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
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Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.
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It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.
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In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.
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