Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
