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 was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
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Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
