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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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
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Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...
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Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
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How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.
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I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
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